AHC: French victory in French and Indian War

Sorry if there are threads like this already, but the search function is not working with me at the moment. Like the title says, get the French to win the French and Indian War, or the North American part of the Seven Years War depending on where you are, and have France gain the British Canadian colonies.
 
France fully expected to lose its colonies in the 7 years war, and hoped to counter those losses with gains in europe.

A complete change of stratgety is required
 
In my TL (see sig) the French and their allies defeat the Anglo-Prussian alliance, and are able to retain their colonies.

But for France to gain British American colonies I believe is impossible.
 

Anaxagoras

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Sorry if there are threads like this already, but the search function is not working with me at the moment. Like the title says, get the French to win the French and Indian War, or the North American part of the Seven Years War depending on where you are, and have France gain the British Canadian colonies.

I wrote a TL way back when (which I need to get back to at some point) called "God is a Frenchman" which used a French victory in the Seven Years War as its starting point. In my TL, a shift in the weather over the North Atlantic allows the French to win an overwhelming victory at the Battle of Quebec; it also indirectly lead to the wrecking of a major British fleet off the coast of France.

However, I don't see any way for France to gain British colonies in North America. Remember that the population of the whole of New France was only about 50,000 people, whereas the population of the British colonies along the Eastern seaboard was something like two million.
 
In India, it seems the French had a quite competent governor in the person of Joseph François Dupleix (1693-1763) who was Governor of French India from 1742 to 1754. He was a rival of Robert Clive and quite competent, but the French recalled him because they hoped it would help secure peace with Britain... Of course, this didn't work very well.
Maybe if Dupleix were to stay in India, the French could keep their possessions there if not expand them. Dupleix was apparently looking to expand French influence in Southern India.

New France is another problem. The French didn't have much faith in that colony and didn't really care for it (they were more interested in Sugar Islands). However, I wonder what the consequences of a defeat of General Wolf rather than a Victory would have for New France.
With Wolf defeated, the French might keep New France longer, but I doubt they would extend it. Basically, they considered New France a large and useless swath of land.

The survival of New France and French India would be what I consider a French Victory in the French and Indian War. Or at least a draw.
 
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