"Peter Kemp" wrote in message
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On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 12:49:30 -0000, "Keith Willshaw"
wrote:



If the rebellion of 1776 had failed I'd still expect that the North
American
colonies would achieve indepedence following the same sort of
model as Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

And indeed it would be likely to be the Commonwealth of North America,
including both the Canadian provinces as well as the American
colonies, probably with a capital in either New York or Boston.


An interesting what-if would be whether the area of the Louisiana
Purchase and the South Western "aquisitions" would have occured - I
can see Louisiana being taken post 1815 as reparations, but I'm not
sure if the Empire would have taken on Texas, California and so on.


Which might make Mexico a rather more signifcant nation than
it is today but would probably prevented the American civil
war since slavery would have been abolished in the south
in the 1830's as it was elsewhere in the Empire

What price the great Mexican-American War of 1900

Keith