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Old 04-25-2008, 13:02 PM   #43 (permalink)
ba1025
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Originally Posted by dalem View Post
I can't remember if we've ever had this "what if?" before, and it seems appropriate given the date today (July 4th).

What if the relatively few hotheads in the Colonies had been overridden by the majority of their fellows who wanted to remain part of the British Empire, and the American War of Independence had never happened?

I'm not heading in any particular direction, I'm just kind of interested in the discussion. How would things have looked through the last 230 years? No American Civil War? A different Civil War? Millions of American dead in WWI maybe? No difference at all?

-dale
Wouldn't the civil war have started when the Brits outlawed slavery
Where do you get the majority of new Englanders were against the war?
I'd guess the ultimate outcome would of been apushing together of Russia and germany or germany, russia and france to be counter to the hegomonic UK
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