Didn't Washington's army sit at Harper's ferry and basically do exactly the same thing? It's entirely possible in these circumstances for the more ruthless side to win.
I suppose in theory. Good luck for British democracy, old chap.
Didn't Washington's army sit at Harper's ferry and basically do exactly the same thing? It's entirely possible in these circumstances for the more ruthless side to win.
You'll find the "Search" function at the top of each of the forum's pages. It's third from the right between "Quick Links" and "New Posts".
Once you find the "Search" function, you'll also find several thousand posts discussing the Done to Death[SIZE=-2]tm[/SIZE] question you've just posed.
Happy reading!
Bill
What do you mean humiliated?
He's new here, he posed a Done to Death question, and I pointed him to the Search function. What's wrong with that?
Bill
The problem with "done to death" questions is that they really aren't done because of the idea that they are "done to death", creating a paradox. Think, for example, about the whole "JFK Lives" deal which is thought of as "done to death". Then think about how many threads there are really dealing with it, to say nothing of timelines or anything of that manner.
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The future of America really depends on how the British act post-war. If the British continue their actions (which the Americans found tyrannical, although that was mostly because they'd never really been closely governed by Britain and that ending of salutatory neglect threw them into a tizzy, even though they were really only as governed as anyone in Britain and taxed many times less than Britain, but anyway...)
Not so. The American colonies were subject to trade restrictions that the metropole was not. In fact, the line on the lips of many revolutionaries prior to the war actually taking on its independence overtones was, "Taxes or trade restrictions, one or the other but not both". They felt they were doing the work required of them to maintain the empire through the mercantilist protections placed on colonial trade, and taxing them in addition would be a step too far.
The trade restrictions weren't anything radical. Mercantilism was the reason for Empire, and both parties benefited from it, and the Americans had technically been required to trade only with Britain all the while. It is simply that Britain ended salutary neglect and enforced what had always been there to begin with.
How did Americans benefit from it?
How did Americans benefit from it?
The trade restrictions weren't anything radical. Mercantilism was the reason for Empire, and both parties benefited from it, and the Americans had technically been required to trade only with Britain all the while. It is simply that Britain ended salutary neglect and enforced what had always been there to begin with.
Faeelin
Secure markets in a highly protectionist world. Free protection by the RN for their shipping, which was expanding rapidly. Think those were the main benefits.
Steve
and we get a mega-Canada British NA.
That's a very common idea, but I don't see how on earth that would happen.
Canadians are sensible. They were royalists and funny-talking, deferential to authority, ambivalent French peasants. Americans have always been tax dodgers and religious fanatics. From the first colonists to the present.
God knows what the analogy would be. Things would degenerate rather quickly after a British victory in the ARW. You might end up with an even more militant, tax-hating, Jesus-worshipping, anti-British US.
That's a very common idea, but I don't see how on earth that would happen.
Canadians are sensible. They were royalists and funny-talking, deferential to authority, ambivalent French peasants. Americans have always been tax dodgers and religious fanatics. From the first colonists to the present.
God knows what the analogy would be. Things would degenerate rather quickly after a British victory in the ARW. You might end up with an even more militant, tax-hating, Jesus-worshipping, anti-British US.
Are you being sarcastic or you actually believe such nonsense? Perhaps we'd all (OTL Canada & USA together) be living in a just, verdent and peaceful Kingdom of Amercana today.
The US was founded by radical Protestants (New England), people in search of fortune (Virginians), and people who have a unique disregard for most forms of earthly authority (Scots-Irish Pennsylvanians/Appalachians).