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Hmm perhaps they only join if there can be four French states: Quebec, Canada, Vermont, and Acadia. Nova Scotia may or may not be British. Quebec can be everywhere north of Montreal and Canada can Montreal down to the lakes. I could also see Louisiana and Arkansas being French states admitted...

Oh wow I had no idea. Looks like it would definitely become a state.

I doubt it would have the population. Perhaps perpetual federal territory.

That's a good point. The Acadians might continue their migration out of Nova Scotia.

But the claims of the states were not respected. Federal territories and new states were made out of the Appalachian and northwestern claims of the original 13. If Quebec got Upper Canada it would be bigger than Virginia and Pennsylvania combined. More likely the area south of Lake Simcoe would...

Exactly. Why wouldn't English speaking settlers move there after it becoming American? Why only Francophones?

I don't see why Upper Canada would necessarily become majority French-speaking. Would Quebec remove English-speaking settlers who hail from places like New York?

There was a huge amount of trade between the Qing and Europe. So much that Britain had almost run out of silver and had to use opium to trade. It didn't need to be "opened up." Britain just wanted to not follow Chinese law. Without any Opium Wars, there's no need for the Qing to worry about...

Just did some research. In 1775, the Province of Quebec(Upper and Lower Canada) had approximately 73,000 settlers, almost entirely French speaking. Nova Scotia had 17,000 British and maybe up to 2,000 French settlers. Nova Scotia has several thousand fewer settlers than Georgia, but isn't out of...

Socotra is the main source of one of the main Roman incenses, sanguis draconis. Known as dragon's blood today, it is still one of the main incenses you can find at drug stores and herbariums. What would be neat is an earlier invention of coffee. Would give the Romans something to trade to...

If you read my post, I posited a situation that could prevent it.

I've got two good ones: No Quebec Act means Canada goes with America in the revolution. Rupert's Land is purchased and Newfoundland declares independence and petitions for statehood in the late 1800s after considerable Yankee immigration takes over the government. The US, being more...

This has to be one of the great TLs of all time. The political and military history is lacking, but it more than makes up for it in the rich exploration of culture and the fascinating combination of Chinese and Indian cultures.

I was just saying my borders may be arbitrary, but so were the historical borders.

In my defense, I put more thought into the borders of these states than US Congress did in basically every state west of the Mississippi. They're all squares!

Perhaps something like this:

I bet there would be one giant state for all the far north, or the states would be absurdly long on the north-south axis.

Ah I'm seeing it now: a putsch by the Volkisch Bund decapitates the SPD and the only ones standing up to the restoration of the monarchy are the KPD who are now absorbing the SPD, so all the republicans flock to the KPD and overthrow the putschists. Perhaps a Communist state is established right...

Neither of them were committed syndicalists like Rommel was a committed Nazi, though. Well maybe Gamelin.

Canada might want to make it on its own, but there were already states where the state religion of another state was practically banned and they still banded together. Not out of a common love for Protestantism, but out of the necessity of fighting the country with the most powerful navy in the...