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Hey everyone. I have a question. After the Revoultion, many people in Great Britain and in Europe thought the 13 colonies would fall apart, and rejoin the Empire.

I mean no colony has ever became indepent and lasted right? That was the thought. Even during the War of 1812, there were fears in people's hearts that they may become British subjects again.

But by the 1840s, it was clear Great Britain would never retake all of America, and the best they could do in a war would be getting a part of Maine, some of the Mid-West, or the NorthWest or Alaska.


At what point did the world agree that the British would never get the colonies back? Like the general view of Europe, to the point of no fear in a Ohion Farmers heart?
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