Hawaii: The Provisional Cession of the Hawaiian or Sandwich Islands established by Lord George Paulet, which placed Hawaii under nominal British sovereignty, although it was quickly returned to the Hawaiians. Would it have been possible for the British to keep sovereignty?
Alaska: My thought was that the British could have used the Crimean War as an excuse to occupy Russian America. Historically the Hudson’s Bay Company have outposts in part of Russian America, and during the Crimean War the British did launch an attack on a Russian base on the other side of the Pacific. Russian America never had a large Russian population and was never particularly profitable. Could Britain have gotten the territory in this scenario as part of the peace settlement for the War?
Alaska: My thought was that the British could have used the Crimean War as an excuse to occupy Russian America. Historically the Hudson’s Bay Company have outposts in part of Russian America, and during the Crimean War the British did launch an attack on a Russian base on the other side of the Pacific. Russian America never had a large Russian population and was never particularly profitable. Could Britain have gotten the territory in this scenario as part of the peace settlement for the War?