A touch of history with a twist- what if something else happened and what we know happened did not?
A interesting concept in connection with the following events-
I. If Themistocles Had Not Beaten Aristides in an Athenian Election
II. If the Moors Had Won the Battle of Tours
III. If King Ethelred of England Had Not Married the Norman Emma
IV. If Columbus Had Kept His Straight Course Westward
V. If Queen Elizabeth of England Had Left a Son or Daughter
VI. If the Philarmonia Had Not Given Concerts at Vicenza
VII. If the Spanish Armada Had Sailed at Its Appointed Time
VIII. If Champlain Had Tarried in Plymouth Bay
IX. If Charles II Had Accepted the Kingship of Virginia
X. If Admiral Penn Had Persisted in Disowning His Son William
XI. If the Boy George Washington Had Become a British Midshipman
XII. If Alexander Hamilton Had Not Written About the Hurricane
XIII. If Lafayette Had Held the French Reign of Terror in Check
XIV. If Gilbert Livingston Had Not Voted New York into the Union
XV. If the Pirate Jean Lafitte Had Joined the British at New Orleans
XVI. If James Macdonnel Had Not Closed the Gates of Hugomont Castle
XVII. If Abraham Lincoln's Father Had Moved Southward, Not Northward
XVIII. If Skipper Jennings Had Not Rescued Certain Shipwrecked Japanese
XIX. If Orsini's Bomb Had Not Failed to Destroy Napoleon III
XX. If President James Buchanan Had Enforced the Law in November, 1860
XXI. If the Confederates Had Marched on Washington After Bull Run
XXI. If the Confederates States Had Purchased the East India Company's Fleet in 1861
- АвторJoseph Edgar Chamberlin
- ВидавництвоProject Gutenberg
- Рік видання2010 р.
- Оригінальна назваThe Ifs of History
- Тип книгиЕлектронна книга