AHC: American Victory in the ARW that doesn't cause it to leave the empire

In the early days of the revolution many Americans were not interested in independence just more freedom from Parliament, is there anyway that the British could allow this to happen?
 
Best way might be that both side can't win and war goes stalemante situation and then British government is willingful to negotiate. They don't allow independence but accept bigger autonomy. And revolutionariers know that they can't get more so they accept.
 
The Whig party in Britain was largely sympathetic to the complaints of the American revolutionaries, opposing the Coersive (or Intolerable) Acts and generally favoring a negotiated settlement. There's a reason the terms "Whig" and "Tory" were used in America to refer to supporters and opponents of the revolution.

Have the Whigs do considerably better in the 1774 elections. Not an outright majority, or you're likely to butterfly away the Revolution until several years later, but just a few seats short of a majority. That way, it would be much harder to pass bills funding the war (both operations and the cost of expanding the army with recruits and mercenaries), and a major setback such as the loss of the Siege of Boston (March 1776 IOTL) might get enough MPs to reconsider their views and join the Whigs in opposing the war. If that happens, the Continental Congress would begin receiving serious peace overtures right around when IOTL they were starting to debate declaring independence.
 
I don't buy it.

I don't think the AR was just a matter of compromise.

The point is that the 13 colonies were separated from England by 6000 kilometers of ocean (it took 40 days to cross the Atlantic), were far more democratic than the british noble-merchant oligarchy, and wanted to exploit freely all the potentialities of the north american continent, to be free to trade and produce what they wanted with who they wanted. There could be no lasting compromise on this.

Even if you put the word "dominion" on it, this is still de facto independance.
 
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