The British North American War/King Louis War
The Americans in the Thirteen Colonies want to expand westward from the Appalachians and weaken the French in North America. The British North American War would start around 1772 with ongoing pressures from the Americans in Parliament and the British wanting to get revenge on the French for winning the Seven Years War. The Americans would want to take the valuable trade routes and important strategic points from the French such as the Saint Lawrence River and the Mississippi River which the French controlled the ports to both of those rivers in through their colonies.
The British North American War would start with the Americans hoping to take the Fortresses of Beausejour and Louisbourg away from the French in the French colony of Acadia because both of those Fortresses controlled the Saint Lawrence and the Americans would also want to take the city of New Orleans in the colony of Louisiana in order to gain control of the Mississippi River. Those would be very hard to do and the British and their American colonists would have very high odds of losing the war against the French because the French have a large army stationed in North America to protect New France against the enemies of the French and along with the arrival of peasants facing bad harvests in France would make the colony harder for the British in North America to hold and take from the French.
Spain would join the British North American War/King Louis War on the side of the French because of British fears that the Spanish would want to ally with the French and attack the British southern colonies from the Spanish colony of Florida and the French colony of Louisiana. Florida especially East Florida would have very good farmland that the British would want and could use for cash crops and expand further British settlements in North America.
The war was a defensive war meaning that all that France had to do was win and they could keep their colonies because there was no more British colonies the French could take and successfully hold especially the British Thirteen colonies. The war would end in a French victory because of the large battle hardened French army that was stationed in North America many years before the war even took place and would be ready to fight against the British and the American colonists as well as the French building up their navy as well.
The 1775 Treaty Of Paris would state that
- Britain would have to recognize the French Empire as the dominant colonial power in North America and India.
- Britain would have to recognize the Spanish Empire as the dominant colonial power in Florida, the American Southwest, Central, and South America.
- British Colonies would be limited to east of the Appalachians.
- Gibraltar is given back to Spain.