We all no the pathetic Attempt by the Ragtag Americans was stopped dead in its Tracks after a Crushing defeat at Lexington but what if the American Attack on Lexington and Concord had suceeded? What could have happened?
I don't want to think about it I'm very proud to live in the Empire. I don't see any way the American colonies could be near the nation we have today. There's no way it could cover 70% of the Earth.
The colonies probably would have splintered into independent nations after the revolution the only thing holding them together was the revolution once thats gone poof. And think of all the wars we'd have had on the continent even as part of the Empire provinces disputed borders with each other untill the late 19th century.
With all the wars and the small size of the nations that would have been formed from the American rebellion the standard of living on the continent would be very low.
That is extremely doubtful in my honest opinion, especially considering the great deal of inter-colonial violence that marked the 19th century. It seems almost ASB-ish to imagine an empire that could successfully unite the nations of the New England Confederation, Virginia, Texas, Louisiana, Deseret, California, et al. into a continent-spanning nation. If that were possible, why didn't we see the formation of a Pan-African Union in the 1950s-1960s?The revoloutionaries would have dominated the empire and even disbanded it if they had the chance. I'm proud to live in the empire and the fact that we even have an empire is more then enough to honour those Imperial soilders that dies on that day.
OOC: revolution refers to a successful revolt. The term that we should be using in the title is rebellion.
But I have to consider that the Empire almost collapsed 3 times since 1775. Just consider the 1888 Congolese Plague which caused the capital of the Empire to be moved to Philadephia, just 23 years after the Virginia Rebellion. Then there is the 1918 Spanish influenza outbreak that forced the moving of the capital and the Royal Family to Manhattan. In both cases, it would seem that infectious disease had more to do with the change in imperial affairs than any political manuevers.....The capital of the British Empire still in London rather than New York.
I guess the British Empire would still exist in a traditional way or maybe other colonies would have broken away.
India comes to mind.