The History Keeper
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What would have happened if the French had won the French and Indian War? Would we all be French?
What would have happened if the French had won the French and Indian War? Would we all be French?
Hm... assuming the best case France-wins-everything scenario, I think French New England could get very ugly, depending on how the French decide to enforce their rule there...That depends on the degree to which they won. It also depends on what level of victory. If it is defeat in Europe, but victory here, that is different than the opposite, or even both.
Since you said the French and Indian War, I will assume that you at least mean in North America.
A simple victory would mean nothing more than New France preserving its territorial integrity. A slightly greater one would involve a conquest of most of New York, what would later become the state of Vermont, as well as Western Virginia, as those were two areas focused on by the French attackers, especially the first two.
I believe the greatest the French could hope for would be the capture of New England, as well as the small, relatively unpopulated areas of Canada controlled by the British. They simply didn't have the manpower to take the middle colonies and the south.
"oppression of the American colonists" I get slighly annoyed by the idea of the cruely treated American colonists under their evil moustache twirling Brit overlords. The Revolution was basically a succesful power grab with some good propoganda, if it was anything deeper it wouldnever have achieved funding and backing from Britains nemies. The idea of the revolution as a oble crusade causes me no end of twitching.
Hm... assuming the best case France-wins-everything scenario, I think French New England could get very ugly, depending on how the French decide to enforce their rule there...