"Mike stone" <mwstone@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> > The senior English nobleman with any sort of royal connection who is
>> > fighting with the two English regiments fighting in the Low Countries
>
>> > will return home at the head of his troops (plus any others who fancy
getting
>> > very rich very quickly), declare himself king and blow the Romans
away.
>>
>> Unless Lord Mountjoy in Ireland beats him to it. Mountjoy is a 2G
>grandson
>> of Thomas Grey, 1st Marquess of Dorset, who was a half-brother of both
>> Edward V and
>> [Elizabeth I's grandmother Elizabeth of York]. That might strengthen
his
>> claim
>> as much as [being the son of Henry VI's half-brother] helped Henry VII.
>>
>
>
>
>How about Philip III of Spain? He was an indisputably legitimate
descendant
>of John of Gaunt, and whatever Christian population Britannia had at the
>time of the Event would probably think of itself as "Catholic". rather
than
>Protestant.
>
>Does the Kinsale expedition of 1601 go to Britannia instead, either on
>Philip's own behalf or maybe his sister Isabella's? Could anyone else
>intervene in time?
1) Roman troops are not going to wet
their pants and flee en masse just
because some barbarian fires off a
boomstick.
A handful of clumsy smoothbore
matchlocks will not be decisive against
well-trained infantry with steel
weapons, bows and arrows, and horses.
Cortez defeated the Aztecs, who did
not have any of the above, with the
aid of large numbers of local allies,
while the Aztec state was being decimated
or worse by Euro diseases - and it was
still a struggle.
Britannia has a veteran Legion and
probably a fair number of auxiliaries
in place. (On the Pictish border, in
Siluria, and making sure the Britons
get no silly notions.) Any filibusters
will be seen off quickly.
2) Given the shocking and extraordinary
nature of the ISOT event, would anyone
be seriously debating the relative
merits of obscure Tudor relatives' claims?
The Kingdom of England is _gone_. There's
nothing to fight over. One might as well
claim the Kingdom of Jerusalem, or the
succession to the Byzantine Empire.
3) With the disappearance of England, the
English position in Ireland collapses.
Besides the material effect, the moral
effect of knowing that the homeland is
gone and will never send any further
sup****t would be decisive.
Hugh O'Neill sweeps the board, and may
even declare himself Ard Righ. He may
not even need Spanish help, though he
probably gets some.
4) Once the crowns of Europe know what has
happened, there will be embassies and
missions to Britannia. But conquest will
not be considered for a good while. If
Britannia rejects all Christian missions
and remains flagrantly pagan, there might
be a Crusade of sorts. Might: there are
much worse infidels, actual enemies of
Christ, all over the Med and Balkans, and
no one is "crusading" against them any more.
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