Petrie, Charles. "If: A Jacobite Fantasy"
Divergence: 1745 CE
What if: In 1745, Bonnie Prince Charlie decided at Derby to continue his advance into England
and the Hanoverians fled.
Summary: Review of the Stuart restoration and speculation on how the Hanoverians would have
mucked things up, particularly in America.
Published: In Weekly Westminster, Jan. 30, 1926; The Jacobite Movement: The Last Phase,
1716-1807, Eyre & Spottiswoode 1950; and If It Had Happened
Otherwise: Lapses Into Imaginary History, 1972, 1974 eds. (ed. J.C. Squire), q.v.
Original in: English.
Translation: German by Walter Brumm as "Wenn: Eine jakobitische Phantasie", in Wenn Napoleon bei
Waterloo gewonnen hätte. Und andere abwegige Geschichten (ed. J.C. Squire), Heyne
1999 (3453149114).
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