Using a POD no earlier than 1720, make California British, this can be a British colony, influenced area, puppet etc.
Bonus points if after 1790.
Bonus points if after 1790.
Alternatively I read once that some of the "Bear Flag" Revolutionaries or at least someone during the brief revolution requested that the local British Admiral who was on scene would annex them. The British Fleet present massively outgunned the American Fleet. However having just quickly swept the interweb I can find no reference for that. Perhaps it is a fiction or my imagination or perhaps, like the Texan request for British protection, it has been retconned from popular US history as being unpatriotic.![]()
Sounds more like it's just obscure. I remember learning about the Texan request for British protection in school, at least.
Were there any British squadrons in the eastern Pacific during the Seven Years War?
Would annexing California mean a different policy by Britain towards Texas?
I was going to mention something like thisEasy.
Britain wins ARW and over time conquers in a westward fashion, eventually annexing California, and possibly Baja California as well.