The Ifs of History

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CONTENTS
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