What if - the American Independence.

[M37]

Since July 4th was Sunday and thier's a threat about the US war of independence I'm intrested in hearing some thoeries of how history might have tured out if things whent a little difrently.

What if the Brisish won? - would the colonists have tried agian or would the US be part of the UK or a dominion or what?
What if they avoidid war?
What if you push it 100-150 years forward into the 18th or 19th Century or even the 20th?

The only ground rule is what ever you write has to seem plausable and the only major changes your allowed to put into the world relate to the UK and what we know as the US.

 

[Quasar1011]

America would likely have succeeded the 2nd time, what with the British pre-occupied with Napoleon in the 1795-1815 time frame.

 

[Cuivienen]

Exactly. The colonists were not pleased in any way by British rule. Although britain may have managed to temporarily subdue the colonies, they would have lost the colonies (and likely Canada too) during the Napoleonic Wars because their troops were more needed in Europe than in America.

Of course, I think that Britain had no hope of ever "winning" the war -- "guerrilla" warfare, if we can call it that, would have continued in the interior whil the British occupied the port cities (Philadelphia, New York, Boston [likely would never have submitted], Charleston, Savannah, Baltimore, Trenton) until the Colonies became States.

 

[zjl56]

I think if the colonists had not not been sparked by the Lexington Concord battle probably some years later annother thing like it would have happened.

 

[mrmitchell]

Since July 4th was Sunday and thier's a threat about the US war of independence I'm intrested in hearing some thoeries of how history might have tured out if things whent a little difrently.

Summaries

What if the Brisish won? - would the colonists have tried agian or would the US be part of the UK or a dominion or what?
What if they avoidid war?
What if you push it 100-150 years forward into the 18th or 19th Century or even the 20th?

1) The Americans would be antagonistic (wording?) enough that even British victory would not change the underlying sentiment that had been established by 1783 (or 1781 when the likely "turning point" would have taken place.)
2) For how long? Eventually, the colonies would be given Parliamentary representation, Englishmen's freedoms, and finally independence. But only over a far longer course--give it centuries--before it became a reality.
3) Then you have an American-won revolution with 1800s weapons or an American-won revolution with 1900s weapons. (No more past the 1930s. Barring an easy English allowance of independence, military technology would have then advanced past rebellions being able to happen with any margin of victory for the revolutionaries.

 

[Knight-Dragon]

One US independence war at a time.

Closed.