If the 7YW goes another way, particularly in NA... (Also a Falklands question)

So assuming the 7YW goes the other way, and the French manage to succeed to the maximum extent in North America, I have some questions.

1. What is the absolute maximum extent of North America that can be obtained by the French and can it include Maine, parts of Vermont and New Hampshire, and the Ohio Valley?

2. For this thing I'm working on in private I have George Washington receive a commission and, although the British are defeated, earn himself a trip to Britain for a commendation. Having lost but been accepted by the British Army, and considering he doesn't yet marry ttl, might he have stayed in Britain and what are his options for specific honors and careers in the UK post war?

3. Follow up to 2... How many of OTL's American founding fathers might relocate or otherwise end up in the UK or other places plausibly? Who and where? I have some limited ideas but looking for some avenues I haven't explored here.

4. How long until France and the UK are ready for round II and is somewhere around 1770 to 1773 too long or short a span? Who has the upper hand by then in ttl?

5. Plausibility check: I'm looking at France nebulously keeping the Falklands* ttl after the war (at least Port Louis) and in the early 1770s giving the west islands to Spain in exchange for Spain selling what is essentially West Florida to France for a low cost. Antagonized by the further French surrounding of her NA colonies and using tenuous claims to the whole Falklands as a call to arms the British send ships to the Falklands and New Orleans and have colonial troops in Georgia advance on Florida declaring war against Spain and France. How plausible is this?

Thanks for all the help in advance.
 
So assuming the 7YW goes the other way, and the French manage to succeed to the maximum extent in North America, I have some questions.

1. What is the absolute maximum extent of North America that can be obtained by the French and can it include Maine, parts of Vermont and New Hampshire, and the Ohio Valley?

Maine yes, Vermont yes, probably not New Hampshire, too much settlement there. The Ohio valley would be the big prize, that's the first goal for both sides.

2. For this thing I'm working on in private I have George Washington receive a commission and, although the British are defeated, earn himself a trip to Britain for a commendation. Having lost but been accepted by the British Army, and considering he doesn't yet marry ttl, might he have stayed in Britain and what are his options for specific honors and careers in the UK post war?

I don't know enough to answer this one.

3. Follow up to 2... How many of OTL's American founding fathers might relocate or otherwise end up in the UK or other places plausibly? Who and where? I have some limited ideas but looking for some avenues I haven't explored here.

Don't know this either, seems hard to predict.

4. How long until France and the UK are ready for round II and is somewhere around 1770 to 1773 too long or short a span? Who has the upper hand by then in ttl?

Seems like a perfectly fine span, though I wouldn't expect the French side to be too eager to jump into a huge war. Unless circumstances have really changed domestically their finances are going to still be getting dire. Britain in contrast will very likely still have a much more robust financial system.

5. Plausibility check: I'm looking at France nebulously keeping the Falklands* ttl after the war (at least Port Louis) and in the early 1770s giving the west islands to Spain in exchange for Spain selling what is essentially West Florida to France for a low cost. Antagonized by the further French surrounding of her NA colonies and using tenuous claims to the whole Falklands as a call to arms the British send ships to the Falklands and New Orleans and have colonial troops in Georgia advance on Florida declaring war against Spain and France. How plausible is this?

That sounds entirely plausible to me. As I'm sure you know OTL Britain almost went to war in 1770 over the Falklands, and in this timeline they'd really be itching for a fight. I don't have any specific knowledge about the plausibility of Spain selling West Florida to the French, but given other French-Spanish transactions it sounds perfectly plausible.
 
Are the Falklands worth this territorial exchange? OTL its only much good for sheep and for putting into port at. Unless you have a penguin fetish

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Grey Wolf
 
Well, I don´t think so.
First, in 1757-1763 Falklands was not occupied by anyone.. Spaniards, French, Dutch and British went occasionally but any of them occupied the islands.
Second, Spain only exchanged territories (that i Knew), once...and it was with Portugal.
Third: I don´t know any French dominio could be interesting to Spain.
Fourth: I think if GB Had lost the Seven Years War ... I think that Britain had taken a long time for trouble again ... maybe 50 or 70 years.

The defeat in the war would have mean the end of the rising British Empire.
 
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