ReRouted By History
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Counterfactuals for the geopolitically curious. What if the script flipped? The GPS of alternate timelines. Because history doesn’t repeat—it remixes. Let’s imagine the tracks that never dropped.
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You won’t want to miss tonight’s EPIC: FROM PETER’S PURSE TO CAESAR’S CHEST
Part II — The Siege, the Dowry, and the Disappearing Bride
Florence Marries the Empire, Betrays the Church, and Births a Dynasty in Shadow reroutedbyhistory.substack.com
Part II — The Siege, the Dowry, and the Disappearing Bride
Florence Marries the Empire, Betrays the Church, and Births a Dynasty in Shadow reroutedbyhistory.substack.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:35 PM
You won’t want to miss tonight’s EPIC: FROM PETER’S PURSE TO CAESAR’S CHEST
Part II — The Siege, the Dowry, and the Disappearing Bride
Florence Marries the Empire, Betrays the Church, and Births a Dynasty in Shadow reroutedbyhistory.substack.com
Part II — The Siege, the Dowry, and the Disappearing Bride
Florence Marries the Empire, Betrays the Church, and Births a Dynasty in Shadow reroutedbyhistory.substack.com
Here’s the Gladiator II film Ridley Scott should have made about a real story of the emperor after Commodus who did attempt to restore the a quasi-republican system. We reroute it and see if he had succeeded…stay tuned Friday!
October 8, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Here’s the Gladiator II film Ridley Scott should have made about a real story of the emperor after Commodus who did attempt to restore the a quasi-republican system. We reroute it and see if he had succeeded…stay tuned Friday!
Stay tuned tonight!
October 7, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Stay tuned tonight!
“Ladders up! Shields high!” Godfrey’s voice cut through the din like a bell. Men surged forward, wooden ladders thudding on walls. Seljuk arrows hissed down, punching through leather, rattling off iron. A knight clambered high, sword in hand: Deus vult! reroutedbyhistory.substack.com/p/the-road-t...
September 25, 2025 at 2:05 PM
“Ladders up! Shields high!” Godfrey’s voice cut through the din like a bell. Men surged forward, wooden ladders thudding on walls. Seljuk arrows hissed down, punching through leather, rattling off iron. A knight clambered high, sword in hand: Deus vult! reroutedbyhistory.substack.com/p/the-road-t...
“Plans crystallized before them: Bucquoy’s forces into Bohemia by harvest, Bavarian reinforcements by winter, Spanish tercios crossing from the Low Countries. Prague to be surrounded, starved, then struck with artillery until it knelt: months not years… reroutedbyhistory.substack.com/p/the-window...
September 24, 2025 at 3:20 PM
“Plans crystallized before them: Bucquoy’s forces into Bohemia by harvest, Bavarian reinforcements by winter, Spanish tercios crossing from the Low Countries. Prague to be surrounded, starved, then struck with artillery until it knelt: months not years… reroutedbyhistory.substack.com/p/the-window...
Another choose your own adventure! The Road To Nicaea, tonight! Vote on which way this rerouted tale should take after one twist makes the landscape a geopolitical monopoly board of 11th century magnitude. Subscribe!
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September 23, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Another choose your own adventure! The Road To Nicaea, tonight! Vote on which way this rerouted tale should take after one twist makes the landscape a geopolitical monopoly board of 11th century magnitude. Subscribe!
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“ ‘In the name of our ancestors!’ one shouted. Hands seized Slavata’s collar, another gripped Martinice’s belt, and with a heave that seemed to summon centuries of resentment, they hurled them into the bright air… Make sure to vote on which reroute we shohld take! open.substack.com/pub/rerouted...
September 23, 2025 at 3:33 PM
“ ‘In the name of our ancestors!’ one shouted. Hands seized Slavata’s collar, another gripped Martinice’s belt, and with a heave that seemed to summon centuries of resentment, they hurled them into the bright air… Make sure to vote on which reroute we shohld take! open.substack.com/pub/rerouted...
What if the Second Defenestration of Prague (1618) what if resulted in a courtyard spattered with blood instead of dung? How would have the most pivotal hinge in the 17th century have played out? Stay tuned tonight and vote on which route you’d like us to take in part two!
September 22, 2025 at 10:28 PM
What if the Second Defenestration of Prague (1618) what if resulted in a courtyard spattered with blood instead of dung? How would have the most pivotal hinge in the 17th century have played out? Stay tuned tonight and vote on which route you’d like us to take in part two!
“Called The Red Spire Legion: a brotherhood of zealots, mercenaries, deserters, bound by oaths of spectacle. The legion carried wagons of sharpened spears, each one destined to bear a body. They marched behind a banner: a black dragon rearing over a crimson spire... open.substack.com/pub/rerouted...
September 21, 2025 at 8:37 PM
“Called The Red Spire Legion: a brotherhood of zealots, mercenaries, deserters, bound by oaths of spectacle. The legion carried wagons of sharpened spears, each one destined to bear a body. They marched behind a banner: a black dragon rearing over a crimson spire... open.substack.com/pub/rerouted...
“Genoese crossbowmen loosed bolts that sang through the mist. Moldavian horse archers wheeled and loosed fire into the Ottoman flanks. When the Gothic charge struck, Ottoman sipahis reeled as if shattered by the very bones of the plague pits beneath their hooves…
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September 21, 2025 at 6:11 PM
“Genoese crossbowmen loosed bolts that sang through the mist. Moldavian horse archers wheeled and loosed fire into the Ottoman flanks. When the Gothic charge struck, Ottoman sipahis reeled as if shattered by the very bones of the plague pits beneath their hooves…
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“A brother dead at the frontier. The prior lays the letter on the altar, beside the rib. He does not speak of grief. He names the fallen. The choir takes the syllables and lifts them into a chant that sounds like surf striking caves… open.substack.com/pub/rerouted...
September 21, 2025 at 12:17 AM
“A brother dead at the frontier. The prior lays the letter on the altar, beside the rib. He does not speak of grief. He names the fallen. The choir takes the syllables and lifts them into a chant that sounds like surf striking caves… open.substack.com/pub/rerouted...
A year later, the vow became a fleet. Caffa’s harbor looked like a painting unfurled. Galleys with scarlet sails tugged against their anchors. On the quays, knights in black cloaks assembled in rows, silver crosses stitched to their chests. Genoese banners spanned in—the new standard of the order…
September 19, 2025 at 8:47 PM
A year later, the vow became a fleet. Caffa’s harbor looked like a painting unfurled. Galleys with scarlet sails tugged against their anchors. On the quays, knights in black cloaks assembled in rows, silver crosses stitched to their chests. Genoese banners spanned in—the new standard of the order…
The Habsburgs were perhaps the most cold, calculating manipulators behind the curtain of any dynasty. But did they almost plot to unchain Vlad Dracul “Tepes” The Impaler to loose him upon their Hungarian adversaries? Well, we imagine it, TOMORROW! You won’t want to miss the bloody good time… 🧛🏻♂️ 🩸
September 19, 2025 at 4:23 AM
The Habsburgs were perhaps the most cold, calculating manipulators behind the curtain of any dynasty. But did they almost plot to unchain Vlad Dracul “Tepes” The Impaler to loose him upon their Hungarian adversaries? Well, we imagine it, TOMORROW! You won’t want to miss the bloody good time… 🧛🏻♂️ 🩸
Johannes replied, his words preserved in parchment: “I will guard the sepulchre of the Euxine until my bones join theirs.”
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September 18, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Johannes replied, his words preserved in parchment: “I will guard the sepulchre of the Euxine until my bones join theirs.”
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From skull-lined crypts to dawn-lit battlefields: the Order of the Euxine Sepulchre was a crusade that nearly happened. The knights who rose from tombs to fight the Ottomans—not Hollywood, sounds like it, right? But in reality a road history could have taken. Stay tuned TOMORROW!
September 16, 2025 at 10:37 PM
From skull-lined crypts to dawn-lit battlefields: the Order of the Euxine Sepulchre was a crusade that nearly happened. The knights who rose from tombs to fight the Ottomans—not Hollywood, sounds like it, right? But in reality a road history could have taken. Stay tuned TOMORROW!
Find out how The Siege of Rouen would have changed if Eleanor had escaped to lead it to victory then what Europe would have looked like in the aftermath!
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September 13, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Find out how The Siege of Rouen would have changed if Eleanor had escaped to lead it to victory then what Europe would have looked like in the aftermath!
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TOMORROW! You won’t want to miss in ReRouted By History: History’s Greatest Prison Break — Eleanor of Aquitaine’s Empire That Might Have Been. With SEVEN dramatically animated scenes just like this for paid subscribers only. Become A World Reimaginer! open.substack.com/pub/rerouted...
September 11, 2025 at 9:20 AM
TOMORROW! You won’t want to miss in ReRouted By History: History’s Greatest Prison Break — Eleanor of Aquitaine’s Empire That Might Have Been. With SEVEN dramatically animated scenes just like this for paid subscribers only. Become A World Reimaginer! open.substack.com/pub/rerouted...
Next up this week: Mad Emperor or Philosopher-King? Frederick II turned Palermo into Europe’s first Realm of Reason. Falcons, plague defenses, and Mongol clocks: a rerouted world where science flew centuries early. Stay tuned!
September 9, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Next up this week: Mad Emperor or Philosopher-King? Frederick II turned Palermo into Europe’s first Realm of Reason. Falcons, plague defenses, and Mongol clocks: a rerouted world where science flew centuries early. Stay tuned!
In tomorrow’s ReRouted by History, you won’t want to miss: The Courtesan Who Could Have Rewritten Venice’s Foreign Policy. Catch:
“The Serenissima’s Sibyl: When Veronica Franco Became Venice’s Diplomatic Oracle”
“The Serenissima’s Sibyl: When Veronica Franco Became Venice’s Diplomatic Oracle”
September 8, 2025 at 12:30 AM
In tomorrow’s ReRouted by History, you won’t want to miss: The Courtesan Who Could Have Rewritten Venice’s Foreign Policy. Catch:
“The Serenissima’s Sibyl: When Veronica Franco Became Venice’s Diplomatic Oracle”
“The Serenissima’s Sibyl: When Veronica Franco Became Venice’s Diplomatic Oracle”
Make sure to catch up on your ReRouted By History! It’s going to be a packed week. Here’s the would-have-been battle of Tunis commanded by Aetius in our previous: “The Grain of Empire: When Aetius Returns to Scipio’s Shore”
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September 8, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Make sure to catch up on your ReRouted By History! It’s going to be a packed week. Here’s the would-have-been battle of Tunis commanded by Aetius in our previous: “The Grain of Empire: When Aetius Returns to Scipio’s Shore”
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September 5, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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The Feast of Fists: Florence vs. Venice in part two of this rerouted tale…would Shakespeare had written about this rivalry instead of the Guelphs vs. the Ghibellines in Romeo & Juliet if history’s axis had titled ever so slightly?
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September 4, 2025 at 5:42 PM
The Feast of Fists: Florence vs. Venice in part two of this rerouted tale…would Shakespeare had written about this rivalry instead of the Guelphs vs. the Ghibellines in Romeo & Juliet if history’s axis had titled ever so slightly?
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What if Sickingen had breached the walls at Trier and won The Knight’s War in 1522? Come be a paid subscriber and found out. Cannon smoke rolls over a shattered gate as Swiss pikemen push into the city, German knights charging the flanks. Fallen masonry and splintered ladders litter the foreground.
September 4, 2025 at 12:32 AM
What if Sickingen had breached the walls at Trier and won The Knight’s War in 1522? Come be a paid subscriber and found out. Cannon smoke rolls over a shattered gate as Swiss pikemen push into the city, German knights charging the flanks. Fallen masonry and splintered ladders litter the foreground.
I’m thrilled to announce that for Paid Subscribers of ReRouted By History, I’ll be including some imbedded short videos of the graphic images I produce! Here: view Caterina Sforza dramatically rides in on horseback to depose the wicked Savonarola!
September 3, 2025 at 4:15 AM
I’m thrilled to announce that for Paid Subscribers of ReRouted By History, I’ll be including some imbedded short videos of the graphic images I produce! Here: view Caterina Sforza dramatically rides in on horseback to depose the wicked Savonarola!
I’m thrilled to announce that for Paid Subscribers of ReRouted By History, I’ll be including some imbedded short videos of the graphic images I produce! Here: view Caterina Sforza and Giovanni de’ Medici forging their matrimony in the fire and iron of Caterina’s clawed crown 👑 🙌
September 3, 2025 at 4:14 AM
I’m thrilled to announce that for Paid Subscribers of ReRouted By History, I’ll be including some imbedded short videos of the graphic images I produce! Here: view Caterina Sforza and Giovanni de’ Medici forging their matrimony in the fire and iron of Caterina’s clawed crown 👑 🙌