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I think the British would be too strong for the Americans. You'd have to get France involved earlier.

Disagree- Carleton was instrumental in organizing the defence of Quebec- without him it is highly possible the Patriots take the city. Holding it is another matter. (Sorry, should make it clear I was disagreeing with Derek.)

Presumably Taiwan would have remained British till WWII. After being liberated from the Japanese it might have served as a refuge for the Communists in southern China fleeing the victorious Nationalists in the north

The older, more famous and wealthier ones fled, while the younger and less well-known went to America. Some, naturally, settled in Canada, especially Montreal, away from the royal authorities in Quebec. When the Revolution came they sided with the Americans,capturing...

The only reason the US defeated the Barbary pirates is that the pirates played the dominant British and French against each other. Nobody was the US enemy at the time, so the two sides were quite happy to see the nuisance slapped down. A US-aligned republic would be going much too far for...

Except you haven't provided any examples of the great cultural losses suffered by closing the monasteries- and England did reach new heights thereafter.

Salvador79 said "1): OK, child mortality factors in a lot here - so what? Would it be better for people not to be aware that long life expectancies are a relatively new (and even today still not global) achievement?" While I agree with most of your points, this argument has actually been used...

-The opposite belief found so often nowadays could be called 'Lord of the Rings' medievalism: an age of benevolent kings and queens, noble warriors and great ladies, wise priests and properly subservient peasants tugging their forelocks. -Some educated people believed in the round earth theory...

About the Oxford teacher- British (or English) philosophy had for many years been under the aegis of the analytic school, concerned with narrow issues of logic; it has often turned to linguistic analysis, and considered other branches to be not real philosophy. European thinkers after Kant were...

Realistically I don't think it would have made much difference. A new religion wouldn't have reached much beyond Arabia anyway. At most it might have spread into Mesopotamia and the Levant for a while, with the Byzantines and the Sassanids being mutually exhausted, but with their respective...

Anglo merchants, along with Rebels who actually took Quebec City in1775 come to compromise with seigneurs; eventually Upper Canada fills with mostly Anglo settlers and breaks off to form separate state.

Sorry, I don't think there's any way a light-weight like Lincoln could have been the nominee; if by some miracle Seward loses the nomination (already close to ASB territory-what could happen, a split between him and Greeley?) Chase would have stepped in. Some backwoods guy who's read a couple...

This is from the New Albion TL; more of an ATL offshoot of Christianity/ alternate Mormonism. Britain has gotten into the sea-otter trade with China earlier, establishing forts and claiming the west coast from Francistown[San Francisco] to the Dezhnyov[Bering] Straits. A few expeditions have...

Thank you and thank you (and it goes without saying, thank you to Strategos' Risk, who gave me a lot of good ideas for this TL). I have it sort of continued in my mind- I bring it up on every thread that is possibly relevant!- and may continue, but... 1) I had a small stroke about a year and a...

Winter Olympics: New Albion TL New Albion, being a former British colony stretching from Franciston [San Francisco] to New Caledonia [Alaska] does well in skiing and other Alpine events; the United States of North America [Canada and the U.S., east of the Rockies] is good in hockey, skating...

The Royal Society believed the Great Southern Continent to be further south. Cook was delayed by his exploration of New Zealand which caused him to catch favourable winds which led to his discovery of Australia. In my TL he is killed by natives in the Pacific North-West; his place is taken by...

I made Austria the preeminent German power, screwed Prussia by dividing Prussia proper between Poland and Russia and making Brandenburg just part of a northern alliance, giving most of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and southern California to the Mexican Kingdom of the Spanish Empire. and give...

Mentioned in Heinlein's "Have Spacesuit-Will Travel" when a 'modern' (1950s) boy who speaks Spanish and studied some Latin has to talk to a Roman Empire era soldier (it's complicated) who was stationed in Spain.

Quote attributed to Lincoln: "I'd like to have God on my side; I must have Kentucky".

It's generally accepted that one of the best chances for a successful invasion of Great Britain is the French and Spanish Armada of 1779. Suppose there was an invasion that succeeded, or was at least good enough to rip Ireland away (through force or peace talks) as a separate country? France and...