New York city as a city-state
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Mayor Fernando Wood proposed it in early 1861 after the Confederacy seceded, but I don't remember anyone else taking the measure up, and I don't think even he was seriously considering it as more than a threat.
Besides that, someone on this forum once suggested that the British could keep New York after the American Revolution, which could lead to its becoming a city-state like Hong Kong.
Besides that, someone on this forum once suggested that the British could keep New York after the American Revolution, which could lead to its becoming a city-state like Hong Kong.
Okay...
If NYC forms it's own Mini Nation apart from the rest of the USA, where do they get their water from, their power, & food. What do they base their economy on if not tied to USA? How would they earn money to pay for things they don't have, resources beyond reach.
If NYC forms it's own Mini Nation apart from the rest of the USA, where do they get their water from, their power, & food. What do they base their economy on if not tied to USA? How would they earn money to pay for things they don't have, resources beyond reach.
If NYC forms it's own Mini Nation apart from the rest of the USA, where do they get their water from, their power, & food. What do they base their economy on if not tied to USA? How would they earn money to pay for things they don't have, resources beyond reach.
You could say the same about any city-state. Like, Singapore.
Anyway, what if the Dutch retain New Amsterdam?
How much land and how large a population could you be talking about? Can it feed itself would be the big question.
So have George III's wish to have some strongholds kept in the form of Rhode Island, Manhattan Island, Staten Island, Long Island, and Delmarva for future reconquests of the colonies perhaps? The loyalists could jam in there.
Flocculencio
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If NYC forms it's own Mini Nation apart from the rest of the USA, where do they get their water from, their power, & food. What do they base their economy on if not tied to USA? How would they earn money to pay for things they don't have, resources beyond reach.
Trade and commerce make a tiny bit of money.
Anaxagoras
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Very few nations are self-sufficient in terms of food. Almost all countries have to import agricultural commodities.
If Cornwallis can pull off a Washington and extract the British Army from Yorktown then perhaps the Colonies are given their Independence but the British keep the areas that they control and want to keep.
Well it's not they're going to immediate wall off the border and become like the two Koreas or start embargoing them as with Cuba, sure there's likely to be some bad feelings to begin with but eventually I'd expect trade and commerce to win out. One thing I do have to wonder about is if this might see competitors to New York arising so that less people emigrate there and it doesn't grow as large. Boston's not too far away, but I don't know enough about the early US to say what might be a viable alternative or not.If NYC forms it's own Mini Nation apart from the rest of the USA, where do they get their water from, their power, & food. What do they base their economy on if not tied to USA? How would they earn money to pay for things they don't have, resources beyond reach.
Britain isn't going to base war policy on the interests of one city in North America.
I could see NYC being occupied in a analog War of 1812 and then returned by treaty at the end of the war.