AH Question: Union of France and England and colonization.

A question, if say, France and England had a union of the two states similar to Austria to Hungary, how would the colonization of the New World go about?
 
A question, if say, France and England had a union of the two states similar to Austria to Hungary, how would the colonization of the New World go about?

Depends on the nature of the union. Even in the theoretically-equal union between Castille and Aragon, it tended to be the Castillians that dominated in "Spanish" colonisation.
 
A question, if say, France and England had a union of the two states similar to Austria to Hungary, how would the colonization of the New World go about?

It really depends on when the union comes about. The nature of each nation's colonization efforts evolved over the lifespans of their respective empires.
 
That's potentially very interesting and would be extremely powerful for a simple reason:

Such a union would completely control the Channel and could do a massive pressure on the commerce South to North and even the commerce North to North with an extremely solid base.
 
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