AH Challenge: United Kingdom of America

Use a POD from any ware between 1750 and 1780 to create a country called the United Kingdom of America. Only the POD has to start in one of the years listed but the scenario can end wherever you like.

Go!
 
For the past year i have been working on a scenario in which the Constitution is not ratified and Washington and his supporters attack the Delegation in Philadelphia and force them to ratify it becoming Dictator in the process. If i ever have some time ill post it.
 
Use a POD from any ware between 1750 and 1780 to create a country called the United Kingdom of America. Only the POD has to start in one of the years listed but the scenario can end wherever you like.

Go!

In 1777 Benedict Arnold remains loyal to the patriots. The Revolution wraps up earlier and Arnold seizes power. At the Constitutional Convention Arnold and Hamilton dominate and they proclaim a monarchy with King Benedict I and King Alexander I as co-rulers
 
Use a POD from any ware between 1750 and 1780 to create a country called the United Kingdom of America. Only the POD has to start in one of the years listed but the scenario can end wherever you like.

Go!

I have King George III sending his brother Edward, Duke of York and Albany, over to the colonies soon after he issues the Proclamation of 1763 in my CoHE TL. The kingdom that gets formed is called Albion however, though the United Kingdom of America could have worked instead.

I do think that for a kingdom to evolve the American Revolution needs to be difussed w/a POD during the 1760's. If that's done, then perhaps by 1780 the Continental Congress and British Parliament could work out a personal union arrangement where George III and his descendants are King of Great Britain and King of the United Kingdom of America.
 
I once did a mini-TL in the Map Thread (one of 'em).
The Colonies don't rebel, but they bitch and moan and whine. In 1780, he sends his 18-year old son, Prince George Augustus, as an envoy and regent. George becomes popular there, due to his youth and spryness. George Augustus lives there for a long time, becoming a well-known and popular figure, seen as much an American as he is a Briton. He publicly marries a Virginian aristocrat, Martha Jefferson, in 1791, which makes a big hubub in Britain; after some antagonism between him and his father, and after a rehash of old problems between the colonies and the UK government, George Augustus pulls a Don Pedro. In the turn of the century, he declares the colonies a federal empire and union, with him as Emperor, separate from the United Kingdom.

Of course, my TL's have a flair for the fantastic and strange, which I think is more common in OTL than clear-cut, realistic events.
 
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"Franklin earned his reputation as a master politician in 1767, with the Plan of Confederation. Bypassing Parliament, he negotiated the agreement directly with representatives of King George III, and it was subsequently ratified by the colonies themselves, creating the American Confederation. Under the plan, the Confederation undertook the responsibilities of its own defense, taxation, and administration of unsettled areas. In exchange, it guaranteed the King a personal income of ten percent of the quitrents paid in newly-settled areas, with a minimum of ten thousand pounds a year, free of oversight.

"Parliament, of course, objected to what it saw as a usurpation of its powers by the colonial assemblies, but found its legislative efforts stymied by King George III's refusal of Royal Assent. For a brief time, resentment flared, with some even calling for a second Glorious Revolution to re-establish the perrogatives of Parliament. However, a general sentiment was that it didn't matter how the colonies financed their own defense, as long as they did so, and that the matter was not serious enough to risk open conflict.

"Ultimately, of course, the Confederation was found to be too weak to be fully effective, and Paliamentary interference in internal trade was increasingly resented. In 1793, the Philadelphia Convention wrote the Constitution of the United Kingdom of America, which was then ratified by the Confederation Council and the colonial assemblies. The Royal Assent, however, was reserved under pressure from Parliament. It was finally granted after the Compromise of '96, under which the United Kingdom of America assumed a portion of the British national debt and explicitly acknowledged the exclusive right of Parliament to regulate American trade with foreign nations and with non-American colonies. In exchange, Parliament explicitly recognized the powers of the American Assembly, most particularly its exclusive rights to regulate trade in America and to tax Americans.
 
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