AHC - US-UK relationship with other country

With a PoD of 1600, have any other two countries have a relationship in which one is a former colony of the other, but is significantly more powerful, and yet both nations have relatively friendly relationships.

You get a cookie if it doesn't involve Iberia.

Double cookie if it doesn't involve the New World.
 
India - UK with a surviving empire? India would dominate the UK economically and as a result of British culture becoming Indian-ised the two might have a strong relationship.
 

Ryan

Donor
would 1600 be early enough for India to end up French rather than British? if so, then what fenrisulfr said but with France instead.
 
would 1600 be early enough for India to end up French rather than British? if so, then what fenrisulfr said but with France instead.

I know by 1660 British East India Company was under threat from Dutch East India Company. France/Spain/Portugal/Britain were more interested in the Americas at this time so it would more likely that India would end up Dutch. Not a big stretch plus I would assume they'd have similar policies to the British with regards to controlling India.
 
would 1600 be early enough for India to end up French rather than British? if so, then what fenrisulfr said but with France instead.
It certainly would be. I believe that France lost India in the seven year war. After that they weren´t able to control India, before it, they still could have been. A POD at 1600 could give you a French India, you just need a France that focusses more on the ocean than on land. Maybe a Franco/Dutch alliance, which manages to remove the Habsburgs from the Southern Netherlands (which would secure the French borders) and then cooperate overseas with the Netherlands focussing on Indonesia/Malaysia and France on India.
 
Brazil-Portugal shouldn't be too terribly difficult.

Isn't that pretty much OTL?

Alternatively, any TL with a maximum Australia - including New Zealand, New Guinea, and a bunch of smaller places, plus larger and earlier immigration - that retains similar links to OTL with Britain should also do it.
 
Top