“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...

“ ‘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...

“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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“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…

Johannes replied, his words preserved in parchment: “I will guard the sepulchre of the Euxine until my bones join theirs.”

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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...

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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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.

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 👑 🙌