No American Revolution - Consequences in Europe (and the world)?

What would be the most noticeable divergences in Europe (and the rest of the world) in a hypothethical scenario in which the ARW is averted? In the short term, is the French Revolution inevitable? With united British North America, would the UK focus on carving an empire out of the decadent Spanish Americas (no British India)? Will the HRE last indefinetly?
 
What would be the most noticeable divergences in Europe (and the rest of the world) in a hypothethical scenario in which the ARW is averted? In the short term, is the French Revolution inevitable? With united British North America, would the UK focus on carving an empire out of the decadent Spanish Americas (no British India)? Will the HRE last indefinetly?

The French Revolution would definitely have happened in some form without the ARW, however, the additional money would have bought the monarchy at least a little more time. (Some other poster actually tried to calculate this, pulling information from god-knows-where, and came up with a figure of only a couple more months at the rate they were spending money, but I don't know how reliable that estimate was) Anyway, more time for the monarchy could have created all sorts of butterfly effects, so no guessing how exactly it would have turned out. The British were already well established in parts of India, and they had chased out the French during the Seven Years War, so the door is wide open for them to continue taking control of the subcontinent.

One less obvious effect could be on the imperial economic system. OTL, within 20 years of the end of the war the United States was conducting more trade with Great Britain than it actually had prior to the war, when export trade was confined to Great Britain. The British economy was also doing good coming out of the ARW. (it was seen as a minor economic miracle) I wonder if a longer period of mercantilism might have actually resulted in a somewhat more depressed economic system in the empire than OTL; Mercantilism is very inefficient and free trade ideas where just starting to catch hold. The ARW ripped apart the British-North American mercantilist trade system by force.
 
Poland may also be spared for a while, as the May constitution which brought about it's demise is a direct result of American ideals coming back to Europe.
 
With no American Revolution there would be no America, only British America, which in some ways wouldve been good! :D
 

Anaxagoras

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Interesting butterflies would be the lives of the Founding Fathers. Benjamin Franklin would have continued to focus on science rather than politics; some historians of science think he was on the path to James Clerk Maxwell's discoveries when the war interrupted his work. Thomas Jefferson would probably be remembered as a highly cultured example of the Renaissance man and as the founder of an interesting American school of architecture.
 
With no ARW, there's likely to be a general European at some point sooner or later. Land armies in Europe is going to be much more expensive for France, so that could even bring forward the bankruptcy.

It should also be considered that the ARW was Britain versus France, Spain, the Netherlands and her own colonies yet it was still pretty evenly matched. If it gets Austria or Russia as an ally in the next war, France could lose hard.

You should bear in mind though that the French Revolution was an extremely chaotic event that could, and likely would, go in a completely different direction due to huge butterflies if the change the year bankruptcy happens. It could plausibly end in military dictatorship, complete anarchy, constitutional monarchy or enlightened despotism, or anything in between.
 
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