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I've thought off and on about doing a TL based on the idea of no Alaska Purchase leading to a British Alaska. One of the primary motivations for Russia's sale of Alaska was the fear that they would loose it to either the US or the British. Usually, when the question of no Alaska purchase is brought up, the assumption is that Russia will hold on to Alaska until some point in the 20th C.

But what if Russia's fears were realized?

OTL, the purchase was popular, but let's say the treaty isn't approved - maybe Greeley leads a better campaign against it. So, if we start from 1867

There were several occassions where the two came close to war - primarily the Anglo-Russian Crisis of 1877-8 and the Panjdeh incident in 1885, but with the butterflies of no sale of Alaska, there would probably be something else that could go wrong, including the Brirish enter/get pulled into one of the other power's wars against Russia.

So, assuming the US doesn't purchase and that there is an Anglo-Russian war sometime between 1870 and 1890, what would be the most likely cause and what would be the wider effects effects?
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