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Hello all! I have been reading through some of the threads for the last few weeks and thought it was about time I got my own out there. I am still getting used to all the terminology and acronyms so please bare with me! I know at the time I open, there was no way that the British would of allowed a parliament other than the one centred in London to exist, but it was the only way I could fathom for an easy avoidance of the American revolutionary war and I wanted to explore how the empire would have developed if it had never happened and the 13 colonies remained part of the British empire. My ultimate goal is to explore the 20th century and both world wars and how they would of developed if there was the military and economic might of the USA backing the whole of the British empire and how this would of changed our timeline had it not have developed separately. But first, I wanted to develop a background for how other things may have developed. Below is where I am up to so far and at the bottom are some ideas I want to explore for the future. So here is what I have so far…
British Empire alternative history
Master: Black- what actually happened in our time line. Green- alternative history from our time line. Red- additional background info. 1763- Signing of the treaty of Paris 1763. Britain gains Canada as well as additional land up to the Mississippi river. But keeps Cuba, all of Florida and Guadeloupe (Guadeloupe- French sugar colony worth £6m per annum). 1764- Britain forms an American parliament, based in Boston, consisting of locally elected MPs for all the 14 colonies (13 colonies and Florida)and Canada. This parliament still answered to the British parliament but could introduce its own laws and taxes. This helps to massively ease the hatred of taxation leading to the American revolutionary war. 1765- Britain forms a Caribbean parliament based in Havana to help govern its Caribbean colonies. Both additional parliaments function much the same as the existing British parliament and all laws must be passed by the British House of Lords and the monarch. However the self governance (even if in some ways it is an illusion) is enough to keep the colonists happy enough to avoid large spread dissatisfaction leading up to the American Revolution. 1766- First Anglo- Mysore war begins. 1769- First Anglo- Mysore war ends in British defeat. 1774- First Anglo- Maratha war begins. 1775- In place of the American revolutionary war, the first colonial war with the other major colonial powers of France, Spain and the Netherlands breaks out. Mainly down to Britain keeping additional territories in the first treaty of Paris in 1763 and increasing hostility between the major powers caused by Britain’s rising interest in other colonies. 1780- Second Anglo- Mysore war begins. 1783- British victory in the First colonial war cements Britain's place as the dominant power in the world at the time. Senegal and some Dutch East Indies colonies were gained in the fighting as well as all islands in the Caribbean handed over to the British. All the Caribbean gains were administered by the Caribbean parliament. With the massive increase in revenues gained in the Caribbean, large amounts of it were re invested into the development of all the American territories. Build up of naval and land forces in the American colonies to hold the now very valuable sections of the empire as well as to push further into native American territory was paid for by this intake as well as being used to fund future wars. 1783- First Anglo- Maratha war ends. Gain of Salsette Island. 1784- Second Anglo- Mysore war ends. 1788- First Australian colony established at Botany Bay (later Sydney). 1789- Third Anglo- Mysore war begins. 1792- Third Anglo- Mysore war ends. Whole of Mysore conquered. Around this time the American & Caribbean colonists reach a similar level of taxation to the British back at home.
Possible Territory Gains/ Wars European theatre Iceland? Greenland? Gibraltar? Malta? Hannover? Minorca/ Menorca? Cyprus? Some Greek islands, maybe Crete?
North American theatre Hawaii? Alaska? West USA?
African Theatre Mass wars for control? Maybe not that different from OTL
Middle East Theatre Iran? Syria? Saudi Arabia? Oceania Theatre Same as Africa, large scale war for control over all islands?
Asia Theatre Additional territory in south East Asia? Large scale war with China? Opium wars etc. land invasion? War with Japan? Maybe china and japan against British?
Background of other nations? Catholic alliance? Spain & France single nation? Maybe Italian states as well? Portugal? Russian conquest of Scandinavian nations? War with Japan? War with China? Mongolia? Austrian and German unification into single nation? Earlier on the more colonial power? Fate of Eastern Europe? Maybe total conquest by German-Austrian union? Russian invasion? Fate of the Ottoman Empire? British weakened the empire and German-Austrian occupation? Russian intervention? Spanish/French/Catholic alliance invasion of British Held India? Collapse of Spain Empire/ weakening of catholic alliance kick start of South American independence and then “unification” wars? If unified, the earlier the more powerful? Potential European rival?