Let's assume that the Wars of the 3 Kingdoms are delayed and mixes in with anti-Parliament sentiment in the colonies.
How does this play out?
How does this play out?
No worriesSorry, that was a bit harsh. First thing in the morning on my personal timescale and not up to dealing with acronyms yet, I had a bit of a WTF moment.
My basic point is that the American revolution was a consequence of the English civil war, and had to come after it, probably at least two or three generations after.
But...
Already larger, stronger colonies could have played a larger part in the war; there would certainly have been butterflies across the Atlantic if nothing else.
If Roanoke had been much luckier- had been a shattering success even- many more people would have gone to America- but thinking about which people, it tends to be those with no good reason to stay, the adventurous and the disgruntled, people who were not happy at home in England- and a high proportion of them would have been puritans.
A thriving America is probably an advantage for Charles I, because many of his opponents would have left, perhaps including Cromwell- there was a timeline done on this, I think.
So the volatile fraction has boiled off, and the parliamentarians are that much weaker when Charles blunders his arrogant, stupid, egocentric way into civil war, for which he justly and righteously had his head cut off. (Did I mention that I was a member of the Roundhead Association?)
The wars would probably be less professional, go on longer, be more like the thirty years' war in Germany, and there's a much bigger chance of an outside result, complete monarchical victory or leveller revolution.
Hm.
A Stuart continuation instead of 1688's Glorious Revolution (John Churchill / Marlborough fights for James? James masks his Catholic beliefs?) and history bumbles on. Protestants / Whigs tend to emigrate to the colonies but the conflict with France is pretty much unavoidable in geopolitical terms.
Likely to be a less financially competent English / Scottish / GB government so Seven Years War analogue results in near financial ruin for the nation.
Increased taxes on colonies and home nation lead to a Civil War where Parliament and the Colonies are reasonably aligned (but don't necessarily have the same end goal). Colonies suffer a Scottish style invasion post Civil War by Republican forces to restore home country control.