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Yeah, I have that in my TL. An earlier equivalent to the Lachine and Welland canals would open the Great Lakes interior and at least temporarily boost Montreal over New York.

Catholics, Lutherans, Orthodox...most Christians don't like to talk about Satan, as it exposes them to ridicule from nonbelievers- but they believe in him, at least officially.

Good one. Looking forward to it.

The actual conquerors of Canada i.e. the Revolutionaries in Quebec, might have a say in that. They wouldn't be looking to hand it back. Some of the habitants will be sympathetic, or at least not anxious to give New France back to Britain. You'd have to have France recognize the Revolution...

Hmm...interesting. My "New Albion" timeline (Britain establishes colonies on west coast of North America; US takes Canada during American Revolution ) has Spain seek a higher settlement of Tejas, but they're hard to find. I have settlers from Irish and Scottish Catholics after the Invasion of...

Ah, RMcD94 unleashes his/her pet peeve again (yes, I've suffered under the lash).

So, the seigneurs would lead the habitants in a widespread insurrection in favour of ...the British Crown? If the Americans took (possible) and held (less likely, but also possible) Quebec City, it is entirely possible that the British would wash their hands of British North America entirely. I...

Plantegenet Palliser was working on the problem as Chancellor of the Exchequer in the novels by Trollope, written in the 1870s

My New Albion TL has British claims to the west coast from San Francisco to Alaska based on earlier discovery of the sea otter fur trade with China- 1740 in this ATL- leading to America taking Canada and the Maritimes in the ARW; France doing better in India with Clive going to the Pacific...

Ah, History 121: Rome to Renaissance- I remember being quite swept away by White and Medieval Society and Social Change, much to the disgust of my medieval history prof, who made some scathing remarks on my paper.

Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers in 1903 (outside the forum but just barely) had to have the French launch a suicidal attack on the Royal Navy to let a German invasion succeed (why France would agree to this he doesn't say).

If the Americans had taken Quebec City in 1775- it was a close thing - there were people like Michel Chartier, related to former Gouvernirs, who "went to France and offered his services to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Charles Gravier, Comte de Vergennes who entrusted him with an unofficial...

Not all Revolutionary leaders were openly anti-Catholic. George Washington asked his men not to celebrate Guy Fawke's Day in a letter dated November 5, 1775, on the grounds that they shouldn't be holding anti-papist festivities when they were marching on Quebec trying to get the people there to...

Columbus Day is coming up in the U.S., and with it a flood of articles about him. (It's alright, this is not political.)In an ATL based on western North America becoming a British colony under the name New Albion, I named one of the provinces "Western Columbia"(roughly OTL British Columbia)...

If the French Revolution is butterflied or doesn't involve invasion of Spain and Spain still has Louisiana (Luisiana), what would be the respective strengths of the two? I assume the Americans could fairly easily take northern Louisiana, but how about New Orleans? Further into Tejas? How about...

In my New Albion TL, you have South Carolina, North Carolina, and New Carolina- British California (San Francisco north) renamed ; but that's a province of New Albion: British territory settled by fleeing southern Loyalists, so it doesn't really count.

He could pass it off with a quip: "If Paris is worth a mass, London is worth not going to mass."

My New Albion TL has Robert Rogers of Rangers fame seizing Quebec City, France entering the war early and Michel Chartier (related to everyone in New France, friend of prominent Revolutionaries, {and mostly self-proclaimed} agent of France) establishing a state government as part of the U.S. as...

Thanks - its for a TL where France expands to the Rhine, avoids the Revolution, and with Belgium a a client state, enters on the Industrial Revolution slightly before Britain (which has its own problems).

I was wondering about the French canal system in the 1700-1900 time range, particularly how extensive it was, and whether there was a possibility of commercial/naval connections between the Atlantic and the Mediterranean. Could it have offered an alternative to the sea route if that was blocked...