spanish empire

The pod is that Spain will have competent military leaders after Spinola's death, let's say 3 commanders emerge with the competence And ability of Duke of Alba, Farnese and Spinola, What would be the butterflies with the change of some defeats for example rocroi (ITTL without the leadership of...

A while ago, I made a thread about a more dominant Portugal in the Iberian Peninsula. The details of the discussion don't matter much, but it eventually boggled down to the Inca not being conquered by Spain (or any colonial power, such as France or Portugal, for that matter). I didn't give that...

I’m OTL, Phillip II of Spain and his third wife, Elisabeth of Valois had two daughters, Isabel Clara Eugenia and Catalina Micaela, but what if they were both sons (Named Philip and Ferdinand respectively)? I know Don Carlos’s death may be butterflied, but at the same time Philip didn’t exactly...

Let's say that France, Austria, Hungary, and Poland all converted to Protestantism while the Ottomans invade and conquer Italy. With most of Europe divided between Protestants and the Ottomans, how does Spain handle this? Would Spain become a hermit empire only interacting with its colonies or...

I'm bouncing around some ideas for a TL and looking to avoid the AH cliche of South America being identical to OTL, so I was wondering how plausible some more Spanish success in the LatAm Independence Wars would be with some of the changes I've made so far. Relevant to South America is that the...

Could the war of Spanish Succession be avoided, or would France start the war to press Philip of Anjou's claim? Would Charles of Austria still become Holy Roman Emperor, making the domains of Charles VI comparable to Charles V's? Would Maria Theresa inherit Spain? How would a reunited Hapsburg...

My university library was giving away some old books and I managed to get some for myself. One book is titled "Before the Armada" written by R. B. Wernham and published in 1966. It was a detailed account of English foreign policy in the Tudor period. finished reading that some time ago and...

what would have happened if the battle of wagram had been decisively won by the austrians? Would an early dissolution of the French empire be possible? In particular, how would it have influenced Spanish events? in this precocious victory the Spaniards should be much stronger and be able to...

Disclaimer, I'm talking about this guy, not the 18th century rebel leader. Túpac Amaru was the last Sapa Inca of Vilcabamba, the city that resisted the Spanish conquest for decades after the fall of the Inca Empire. Following one final Spanish offensive to conquer Vilcabamba once and for all in...

Martín de Álzaga was a Spanish merchant of Basque origin who migrated to Buenos Aires at a young age, gaining both wealth and political power as the years went by. He was, together with Santiago de Liniers, one of the main leaders of the resistance against the British invasions of the River...

The Battle of Cartagena de Indias was the biggest engagement of the War of Jenkins' Ear, and it was one of the worst defeats suffered by the British military. Despite outnumbering the Spanish defenders by a huge margin, the British failed to storm Cartagena's fortifications and were decimated by...

Hey guys, so I'm rebooting this again, again. Here's the previous iteration, if y'all are interested. The main Point of Divergence is 1823, but as I wrote before, little changes have made this world a bit different from ours. Many thanks to those who encouraged me from the beginning to write...

Since the Philippines was largely faraway from Spain and the fact that the Spanish relied on the previous pre-colonial nobility that became the principalia prior to the mid-19th century, is there a possibility than an ATL Spanish Philippines, while largely similar to OTL, has a high chance of...

Tl;dr: What changes in Spain’s history would need to take place before 1492 as well as what changes in its style of colonization in order for its colonies to be set up for success similar to Britain’s settler colonies I would like to make a distinction at the beginning of this scenario between...

The Spanish Empire in continental America collapsed during the Spanish American Wars of Independence. However, not all of Spains territories in the new world were lost to Mexico, Gran Colombia, etc. Spain still had naval dominance in the caribbean, and was able to keep Cuba and Puerto Rico. They...

As the title says. I have allways see both empires as parallels: born on the frontier against nomadic muslim tribes and expanding over the centuries, being the main differences the continuitiy (Russia) or discontinuity (Spain) of the territory and the fact that one is horizontal and the other...

Scenario: The Iberian peninsula is united under a single flag sometime before 1492. Main question: How does this affect the colonization of the New World? Without Portugal and Spain separated, there's no direct competition for those lands, Iberia would be the only empire in the world that can...

I know that trade between Southern China and the Americas was a pretty big deal for a long time, but what effect (if any) would there be if that trade continued well into the 19th century? Or conversely what effect did the fall of the Spanish Empire have on trade in East Asia? Was the inflow...

what if USA "liberates" all 1763 Spainish colonies? Napoleon was never born and Spanish empire survives with 1763 borders in 1850s and are without civil wars but for that reason they don't enact post occupation reforms and have even less industry. American settlers are countered by brutal...

How could Spain have maintained Latin America under its empire until the decolonization era? In OTL the Peninsular War sparked the independence movements, so avoiding it would be obvious, but then what? Would the Spanish Empire need some reforms? How would Spain deal with the US and its...