Best British Policy for the American Colonies with no balkanizing of North America

Surely even the firebreathers would realise the utter pointlessness of war against both the American north (including Canada) and the Royal Navy? The Empire wouldn't even have to invade. They could just put on a trade embargo and the South's export economy would collapse.

You would think so, wouldn't you? However this is the same bunch that truly thought 'King Cotton' guaranteed them European support for their independence & retention of slavery in OTL.
TTL, they would probably try to court Spain (slave holding colonies) & France. Not realising/caring that post-revoltutionary/Napoleonic France is leaning towards the anti-slave lobby & that Spain is far too weak. They would also be arguing that any attempt to free the slaves violates the legal structure of the Empire, hence their secession from it. This, of course, would justify their actions in seizing (or trying to) seize RN assets.
 
I can't see New England staying independent colonies for all that long. If they want to keep up with places like New York and Virginia then I imagine they'd want to centralise pretty quickly, and the British would probably be happy to back it.

I fully agree, confederation of some sort in New England is going to happen. Massachusetts would still have to relinquish Maine & Maine would have too settle it's border dispute with New Brunswick. I would include the Maritime Provinces in that particular union as well.
I would also like to see Delaware getting full control the Eastern Shore. It makes sense & it makes the maps much neater.
 
At no time in US history was something like the RCMP needed more in America than in the Old West. But politics between Washington, the states and territories simply would not permit it.
In the TL that I've been talking about on-&-off about writing there'll be a 'Royal American Mounted Police' that's initially created as the 'Royal North-West Territories Mounted Police' to maintain order in the territories that are now collectively called "the Old North-West" i.e. the area between the coastal colonies/'cantons', the lands of the Five Civilised Tribes, the Mississippi, and the Great Lakes. Its first commanding officer was General Tarleton.
 
In the TL that I've been talking about on-&-off about writing there'll be a 'Royal American Mounted Police' that's initially created as the 'Royal North-West Territories Mounted Police' to maintain order in the territories that are now collectively called "the Old North-West" i.e. the area between the coastal colonies/'cantons', the lands of the Five Civilised Tribes, the Mississippi, and the Great Lakes. Its first commanding officer was General Tarleton.

Oh, that's a good touch.:)
 
Not so huge. Remember all the conditions for the French Revolution are already in place, except for the famine which WILL be caused by an erupting volcano (pesky things, fun to live next though), as natural disasters are not afffected by human decisions. Even the lack of an ARW wouldn't delay delay it for longas the French would see their American, British & Irish counterparts getting a much larger say in how things are run.
As the Revolution will happen approx. on schedule, little ole Napoleon would still be in position to sieze power.

If the French military hasn't been through a war, there will be a thousand butterflies of officers that are still alive, reforms that are made differently and tactical decisions that go the other way in the Revolutionary wars. It's extremely unlikely that one particular general has the same career three decades later. Heck, every member of the National Assembly probably had his views affected by the American Revolution so their combined decisions probably wouldn't even mean the same wars occur at the same time.

I would also like to see Delaware getting full control the Eastern Shore. It makes sense & it makes the maps much neater.

If there was agglomeration of the colonies outside of New England, Delaware, as a tobacco colony, would more likely be incorporated into a greater Virginia, along with Maryland and North Carolina.
 
Representation for the taxation would have worked nicely, I'd bet.

I mean, they freaking regarded themselves as subjects of the king until 7/4/76 or so, and even then only one third of the population were "patriots," with another third remaining loyalist and the other third able to go either way.

Either that or some kind of local parliament/dominion set-up, something that flatters the Americans into feeling like they're taken seriously. Avoid ticking them off unecessarily.

Do similar with the Indian subcontinent, and I can almost guarantee you some kind of world peace by the 20th century. (or not.)
 
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