Based on a slightly-changed version of the OTL "Graecian project".
I suppose I could've written about it in more detail and generally made this more obvious, but still, the heaviest fighting in the American theatre was in Virginia! Where elsewhere there were a few skirmishes and minor battles at the least, here there were bitterly-contested major battles where, for a variety of reasons including luck on, if not the first, then the second place, the French won and even then took heavy casualties (by colonial standards).
Plus tactical battles aren't something I specialize in, as I said again and again. That's your speciality, if anything. And in the second half of the 18th century, Birmingham underwent very spectacular and rapid growth, sped up by the refugees fleeing from the southeast. Generally it was a city with great potential, and, very significantly, its very disadvantage - distance from the sea - now turned into an advantage as far as the Parliamentary leaders were concerned, as the French were predominant in the sea and it was feared that they might attack just about any coastal city. By the time the threat had disappeared and the war ended, Birmingham already became a very large city and indeed the British capital (i.e. all the necessary infrastructure was set up), so it was decided to keep it there.
Symphony D. said:
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