DBWI: British Columbia and (most of) British Honduras remained Spanish?

JJohnson

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I was reading up in history class about British Columbia, sitting next to Klein Venedig and Peru, and taking the Isthmus of Caledonia up to Central America, and British Honduras, which took the Sartoon River to its source, then due west to the Usumacinta River, then north, taking all of Yucatan with it.

Do you think the Spanish could've held on to these territories? What would those two Commonwealth countries look like had the British not colonized them so heavily?

My friends Erica and Jamie loved seeing the Mayan pyramids in the National Park of Chichenitza. Apparently Sir William Heathcote saw the pyramids in the early 1870s and wanted to protect them for future generations, and started the national park system in the Dominion of British Honduras. My aunt saw Georgetown (OTL Cartagena), British Columbia, when she was in college, and loved it. The people were amazing, and she loved their accent. It was like a mix of English, Australian, and Nova Scotian. My sister and her husband took their honeymoon to the Providence Islands, and thought they were amazing. Best part for them - they all drive right like the rest of South America.
 
I was reading up in history class about British Columbia, sitting next to Klein Venedig and Peru, and taking the Isthmus of Caledonia up to Central America, and British Honduras, which took the Sartoon River to its source, then due west to the Usumacinta River, then north, taking all of Yucatan with it.

Do you think the Spanish could've held on to these territories? What would those two Commonwealth countries look like had the British not colonized them so heavily?

My friends Erica and Jamie loved seeing the Mayan pyramids in the National Park of Chichenitza. Apparently Sir William Heathcote saw the pyramids in the early 1870s and wanted to protect them for future generations, and started the national park system in the Dominion of British Honduras. My aunt saw Georgetown (OTL Cartagena), British Columbia, when she was in college, and loved it. The people were amazing, and she loved their accent. It was like a mix of English, Australian, and Nova Scotian. My sister and her husband took their honeymoon to the Providence Islands, and thought they were amazing. Best part for them - they all drive right like the rest of South America.

You would have to prevent the Anglo-Spanish War that occurred 1792-95; that gave Britain some major prestige back in the day and it also destroyed Spain's Empire: Mexico, Argentina, Paraguay and Guayana(Klein-Venedig wasn't split off from that country until 1881, btw, and didn't even exist until 1855) would all become independent by 1820.....and Peru itself would later become a British Commonwealth of its own.

One thing that could be done is possibly lengthen and/or intensify the American Revolutionary War; Britain managed to keep the South after the dictated peace at Yorktown in 1780, which really helped to keep the Empire stable. If that conflict does more damage, and if the Southern North American colonies get taken, too, the Brits would likely be in no shape, or mood, to even attempt to take on the Spanish(remember, a good number of the ships that left for combat in S.A. were stationed in Norfolk, Va.).
 
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