american revolution

I admit this may or may not be very probable for a number of reasons, but i'm interested to see if this has previously been discussed and/or what people can come up with. Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, known simply as Lafayette in the United States, was a French aristocrat and...

Say that the boats that carried Washington's men across the Delaware broke or were otherwise unusable/unavailable. What would happen?

What if Plymouth Colony, after the dissolution of the Dominion of New England, didn't get absorbed into Massachusetts. Instead, Plymouth asks for a formal charter from the crown, and Plymouth Colony remains separate from Massachusetts throughout the 18th Century. After uneventful for Plymouth...

to say that louis xvi was a weak king and a poor ruler would be a giant understatement, considering how quite literally everything collapsed under his watch. But, ultimately, France was one of the most powerful states in Europe and arguably the world, especially under the right leadership (case...

Ah, Benedict Arnold. The most infamous traitor in American history. 1. Is there a scenario where Benedict Arnold doesn't turn traitor? 2. If 1 is possible, what would the effects be of a non-traitor Benedict Arnold?

“An ardent desire to spare the further effusion of blood will readily incline me to ask such terms for the surrender...” --General Charles Lee “The war for our Independence has invariably not gone in our favour.” --President John Jay The First of the British-American Wars of Independence...

Nathaniel Greene isn't as well remembered as Washington for his revolutionary war service, WI he'd lived longer, could he have become President instead of Washington if Washington really didn't want the job?

Hello. I am going to post story lines and vignettes from my timeline Jefferson's Anti-Slavery Crisis. (You can find it in my signature). I had a blast writing the lore, and I am thinking of writing more stories. Here is the first. I. Crisis at the Continental Congress The delegates from...

in the period surrounding the American Revolution, the new world colonial empires largely collapsed. The French had lost it prior to the revolution, the Portuguese and Spanish destroyed by napoleon, and Russia was barely a player in the arena. Only the British remained, and even they struggled...

AHC Challenge: How could you make a timeline where the United States of America (completely) abandons its founding ideals? (No, I don't mean completely falling apart. Even so, some of the pieces may attempt to live up to the beliefs found in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution)?

Sorry for the lengthy thread title, but I needed to articulate a very specific question. Alternate history scenarios that see Thirteen Colonies remain in the British Empire are relatively common, but they almost definitionally fall into one of two broad categories. The first posits a world where...

(I know this is a stupid and crazy idea, but I'm just curious) What if King George III of Great Britain, decided to go to America, to asset the situation himself, and leave the ramblings of Parliament for awhile. This idea has two PODS; Pre-Lexington and Concord and Post-Lexington and Concord...

What is the most realistic POD for the united states to disintegrate early in its history

So I'm going to do a qbam map series on a usa that disintegrates in its early history, and this is a rough draft of what I have for 1812(ish). I'm personally debating whether the usa should exist here at all as a rump (labeled confederation congress) Any suggestions on how to make this more...

Many Ameriwank scenarios begin with the nascent United States coming out of the American Revolution having won much more land from Great Britain. However, I was wondering which British territories in the Western Hemisphere could have most plausibly been taken by the Americans in the peace...

Map Conditions: The US, by 2020 in this timeline, must have a population of at least 660 million. The US must have a similar GDP per capita and standard of living. The US cannot control more than its OTL borders, plus Canada, northern Mexico, and the Caribbean. This world's history has to be...

Let's say that the articles of confederation stick around a little longer, maybe a short war even breaks out between 2 states. Could someone then potentially take this as an opportunity to seize power and declare themselves emperor? Who at the time had the popularity, motivation and ability to...

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Otl, the 10 Colonies fought for independence and freedom from the British crown. But those ten were originally 13, but the southernmost colonies that were more reliant on slavery than trade didn't join in the rebellion as the north condemned slavery and the institutions surrounding the tobacco...

What if, instead of a (mostly) unified Thirteen Colonies/Patriot Cause, and Vermont, the American Revolutionary War has different factions, that had different ideologies (Ex: Like Different Political groups, Republicans, Slave Revolt, Loyalists that want Self-Government, Proto-Anarchists...