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Well, alright, ladies and gents. Seeing as this little concept is becoming kinda popular, I thought I might try my hand at it and see where I could go with it; the only difference here from most other entries is that the TL is going to span about a month instead of just a day or so, as I'd like to cover some things.

The premise here is a bit similar to "For Want of a Nail": the Patriots failed to win the Revolution, and so the U.S. never got a chance to stick around, having been squashed flat by 1783. But unlike in Sobel's timeline, several efforts, some genuine and some more half-hearted(or half-assed, maybe), to unite the colonies fell apart every time, even including the grandiose Galloway Plan of 1797. And so, with that, all hope of immediately consolidating Britain's colonies went down the drain, and support for the Unionists, as they were called, dwindled down to virtually nothing just a decade and a half later.

However, though, if you thought that these places would all be fully integrated into the British Empire, you thought wrong. Instead, virtually all of the colonies went their own way eventually, with only Victoria[OOC: South Carolina, *Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Florida, and Louisiana later on.]remaining a Crown colony.

Meanwhile, while the revolution in British America might have failed, the one in Spanish America that followed, actually succeeded, and many hundreds of thousands of Anglos left for the new Republic fleeing British oppression, and for a while, it seemed like Mexico could be a rising power.

Mexico didn't say together forever, however, eventually losing California and Texas to secession by 1848. The country spent the next 20 years rebuilding its infrastructure, but eventually became a notable power in its own right by the 20th Century.

The 20th Century brought much promise, but many challenges and even some tragedies as well; the North American War of 1920-24 wasn't quite the first war to feature trench warfare(that was the Franco-German War of 1908-11), but was the first to feature deliberate air raids on, and mass bombardment of, cities. It was also the first modern war to be considered a true stalemate by many historians.

The Global War that followed it, ironically, actually involved very little fighting in the Americas, but major fighting erupted on nearly every other continent outside of Antarctica; even parts of Africa were the stage for quite a few battles! And towards the end of the war, a horrible new type of bomb was tested for the first time: it was the atom bomb, and it was later used against the Koreans by California(but only after their Hawaii'an protectorate had been viciously attacked by same), Berlin in Germany by England, and Kirikkale in Turkey by the Russians.

Following this, the era of Grand Detente was to last nearly 50 years and there were several moments in which many feared that the end of the world was likely imminent. It wasn't until the Mass Weapons Reductions Treaty in 1989 & the Global Unity & Peacekeeping Initiative in 1992 that the danger of global thermonuclear war finally began to pass.

A new world order has begun to emerge from the post-Detente era, and the world keeps turning....
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