Not only a world war, but a civil war as well.
Perhaps essentially a civil war, with multi-nation support on both sides.
OK, I’ll go with the civil war with multi-nation support.
But anyway way you look at it, Britain did pretty darn good, being a small island nation.
Not only did they have colonies or possessions in every part of the world, they were so good at seeding their culture everywhere they went.
A post office in Calcutta looked just like one in London.
The same with police stations, hospitals or ministry offices.
It’s easy to see that the Age of Britain paved the way to the Age of America.
Just wish we had had the same “stick it out” mentality the Brit’s had back then.
Imagine the Korean peninsula united under representative govt.
The same with Vietnam.
If we had convincingly won those two, who in the world would screw with us?
The original idea of supporting America against Great Britain was hatched by Louis XV’s Minister of War. Louis liked the idea as a way of weakening Britain but died before doing anything about it. Louis XVI eventually succumbed to the arguments of Franklin, Lafayette and others but Lafayette supported the American cause with his own money and men before the French King did.