[2ndDivisionVet]

I doubt it would've turned out like that. You?

[Cacique]

What if? The Spanish Armada had not been sunk by a storm?

[SkyDancer]

Most likely we’d have gone the way Canada, Australia and New Zealand have .... would be self autonomous but tied to England. Then later would have voted themselves out of the Commonwealth and gone independent ... them’s the feelings down here in Oz after much pub discussion ....

[Centurion2000]

Not even close. After the Colonial rebellion the Indian Nations would have had a LOT more influence than they had after the War of Independence.

Texas would still have happened but it would have been the Mexican - British war of 1845 and would have eventually resulted in all of Mexico falling to the Empire.

[x]

Looks like a hodgepodge of recent political names thrown together without much thought.

There are a lot of counterfactual histories that treat the question more seriously.

The comment on the site says that if Britain kept America they wouldn't have gotten Australia.

[rfp1234]

On the bright side: the American-inspired French Revolution wouldn’t have happened, Europe wouldn’t have been wrecked by the Napoleonic wars, the socialist movements of the 1800s wouldn’t have arisen, Karl Marx would have become just another kooky professor, China & India & Arabia would be docile Imperial Commonwealths, and Cricket would be the Empire’s national sport...(ooops)!

[OneWingedShark]

>What If ... The US revolt had failed

Well, we wouldn’t have Obama as President.

[mark3681]

“What If ... The US revolt had failed?”

I’d bet we’d be right about where we are now.

[SunkenCiv]

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	Gods Graves Glyphs	Thansk 2ndDivisionVet. Good for a chuckle, at the very least. :') That so few schoolchildren today learn the details of those tumultuous years - the American opposition to colonial taxation, the great British victory at Yorktown and the death of the rebel leader General Washington - is a national disgrace. Had the transatlantic empire broken up, Britain would surely have been condemned to obscurity, even if it is hard to imagine the American states remaining united for long. Yorktown should be remembered as one of our pivotal victories, ushering in two centuries of international dominance. What if Monty had been killed June 7, 1944 and the Germans defeated six months to a year earlier than turned out to be? Would the US have wound up inflicting such terrible defeats on Japan that the nukes would not have proved necessary? :') Who cares, at least Monty would have been dead in 1944. Just adding to the catalog, not sending a general distribution. To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list. GGG managers are SunkenCiv, StayAt HomeMother, and Ernest_at_the_Beach
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[Screaming_Gerbil]

Kinda glossed over how slavery was abolished and the first and second world wars and the development of the A-Bomb and the cold war.

Fun for some to think about, but I think events turned out right, for all concerned.

Now if we can just keep our damn Republic from all the threats within that are racing to turn us into a socialist welfare and police state, that is the question...