Technically, they were dominions, i.e technically no longer beholden to britain... just the crown. The last piece of canadian legislation to go through westminister was in 1981 I believe.I am not a great connoisseur of English history, but for a long time I have doubts about the validity of the map that you show about the British empire, as far as I know, by the time the English colonized Africa, both Canada, Australia and South Africa were independent, different states
So my comment is not wrong either, it certainly has some connection but were they not art to the British Empire?Technically, they were dominions, i.e technically no longer beholden to britain... just the crown. The last piece of canadian legislation to go through westminister was in 1981 I believe.
Now as for OP. The seven year war is too late. French colonialism didnt have large degrees of settlement. But it also didn't have large native protectorates. The reasons why are long and complicated, and I suspect quite a lot of it comes from how much power and wealth was all concentrated in paris, a more inland city, a strategy employed by the french to keep control of the nobility and the south. All in all probably the right choice.
Regardless, france likely needs to get in on it faster, with the monarchy using it as a good way to get rid of undesirables; rebels, heretics, nobles that don't cover their mouths when they sneeze... it won't entirely make up for how much the french DID NOT want to leave, but it will make the colonies more viable.
France also chose to make allies with the natives instead of effectively wiping them from their area of control. That is good. Keep that up, acting as kingmaker and making vassals/protectorates out of them.
We also need to give scotland a bad time, or a very good time. Otl they went on to disproportionately settle the colonies AND become overrepresented in the ruling class of places like the raj. Giving endiburugh hell would make that harder to do, but giving them a very good time would make it less nessicary or popular
So that map is actually what Britain held in the aftermath of WW1, as they had just split the Middle East with France in the Sykes-Picot Agreement. The Dominions were semi-independent but were economically and militarily reliant on Britain as well as having exceptionally strong cultural and political ties. The actual relationship was vague but you could consider it that the Dominions had their own independent militaries but Britain could largely dictate foreign and economic policy, although to what extent depended on the relationship between each dominion and Britain.I am not a great connoisseur of English history, but for a long time I have doubts about the validity of the map that you show about the British empire, as far as I know, by the time the English colonized Africa, both Canada, Australia and South Africa were independent, different states
Oddly I was going to say that France needs a soldier order that it could hide behind like the Rhein in order to make its defenses easier. That would allow it to have less resources wasted on wars.For this to happen, France needs to focus more on a colonial empire instead of trying to conquer parts of Europe. So France should stop trying to gain the southern Netherlands or the Rhineborder, etc. It needs to switch the resources it used in the European war, trying to fight the rest of Europe to its colonial ventures. Also without trying to fight the rest of Europe, France might be able to make some alliances to secure its borders.
Also, it probably needs to make some economic and social changes. The social and economic freedom in England (and the Netherlands) meant that both countries were able to create a better colonial empire than France.
And that is exactly why I mentioned it. France didn't need* the rhineborder and simply trying to get the rhineborder meant that it had to fight all of Europe, meaning that it had to spend resources trying to get the rhineborder, resources it would not be able to use for colonising.Oddly I was going to say that France needs a soldier order that it could hide behind like the Rhein in order to make its defenses easier. That would allow it to have less resources wasted on wars.