The Ifs of History

by Joseph Edgar Chamberlin

THE
IFS OF HISTORY

 

by
Joseph Edgar Chamberlin

 

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PHILADELPHIA
HENRY ALTEMUS COMPANY

Copyright, 1907,
by
Howard E. Altemus

CONTENTS

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	Preface	vii
I.	If Themistocles Had Not Beaten Aristides in an Athenian Election	13
II.	If the Moors Had Won the Battle of Tours	21
III.	If King Ethelred of England Had Not Married the Norman Emma	30
IV.	If Columbus Had Kept His Straight Course Westward	37
V.	If Queen Elizabeth Had Left a Son or Daughter	47
VI.	If the Philarmonia Had Not Given Concerts at Vicenza	56
VII.	If the Spanish Armada Had Sailed at Its Appointed Time	64
VIII.	If Champlain Had Tarried in Plymouth Bay	71
IX.	If Charles II Had Accepted the Kingship of Virginia	79
X.	If Admiral Penn Had Persisted in Disowning His Son William	91
XI.	If the Boy George Washington Had Become a British Midshipman	99
XII.	If Alexander Hamilton Had Not Written About the Hurricane	107
XIII.	If Lafayette Had Held the French Reign of Terror in Check	114
XIV.	If Gilbert Livingston Had Not Voted New York into the Union	121
XV.	If the Pirate Jean Lafitte Had Joined the British at New Orleans	129
XVI.	If James Macdonnel Had Not Closed the Gates of Hugomont Castle	138
XVII.	If Abraham Lincoln's Father Had Moved Southward, Not Northward	150
XVIII.	If Skipper Jennings Had Not Rescued Certain Shipwrecked Japanese	160
XIX.	If Orsini's Bomb Had Not Failed to Destroy Napoleon III	170
XX.	If President James Buchanan Had Enforced the Law in November, 1860	176
XXI.	If the Confederates Had Marched on Washington After Bull Run	185
XXII.	If the Confederate States Had Purchased the East India Company's Fleet in 1861	194