Challenge: Bataille des Plaines d'Abraham

Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to have France conquer the 13 colonies by 1800 with a POD afer the founding of Ft Maurepas. Bonus points if this is achieved without any Spanish help.
 
Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to have France conquer the 13 colonies by 1800 with a POD afer the founding of Ft Maurepas. Bonus points if this is achieved without any Spanish help.

The only way that is going to happen, honestly, is if there is a far larger migration from France than in OTL, and a POD in 1699 (the date of the founding of Fort Maurespas) or later is really too late for that. One possible POD...France turns out to be somewhat more religiously liberal and far-sighted than in OTL. Instead of massacreing the Hugenots in 1572, France decides to round them all up and deport them to the New World, where they can practice their faith without disturbing the peace of the Catholic French public. The crown also creates incentives for Catholics to go, if for nothing else than to keep an eye on all those evil protestants. By 1700, New France and Louisiana have a population of nearly a million people, rather than a few tens of thousands.

Not only is New France's population boosted by this, but the population of the British colonies is reduced by two factors...1) Hugenots who would have settled in the British colonies have been sent to New France instead; and 2) the threat posed by a vastly more populated, and therefore more militarily threatening, New France convinces many Englishmen not to migrate to the Americas in the first place.

The larger number of people in the North American colonies make the colonies far more economically valuable. They are able to produce more resources for the home country, and consume far more in French exports. Therefore, the French crown is willing to devote more money to their defense and possible expansion. Instead of a few regiments, you get something like the relatively large-scale British infusion of troops by the French.

Through all this, the French maintain their relatively good relations with the native tribes they encounter. The English still have the Iroquois, of course, but the French have many more. Added to their own expanded population, this proves the critical mass which tips the scales in their favor.

The final British incursion into French territory is defeated at the Battle of the Plains of Abraham in 1759. The French counteroffensive begins the following year. British colonies fall by the end of 1762, and are ceded to France by treaty in 1763.
 
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while I suppose this isn't technically ASB, the PoD would have to be so major that the '13 colonies' might not have much to do with OTL's 13 colonies.

Firstly, population. The disparity OTL was HUGE. Sure, the American colonists resisted forming much of a military, but if faced with actual conquest they would have.

Secondly. Command of the sea. What happened to the RN? You'd have to totally gut Britain and the RN for this to happen. Any PoD that involved enough civil strife in England to accomplish the task would likely cause even more emigration to America, making the populations there even larger and even harder to conquer.


Ya. If you changed the entire colonial mindset of France (certainly) and England (possibly), you might get enough people in New France to support a conquest of at least part of the 13 colonies, but you'd need a PoD in the 1600s...
 
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