If the American Revolution was more violent and expensive for the British or, persay, more successful for the Colonials, and all of the british-american colonies were lost, would there have been a revolution in Britain instead of France?
I wonder whether our winning the war might not lead to a transatlantic revolution down the line, by consolidating the centralising, authoritarian, Tory-istic trend in our politics even more than it got consolidated in the 1790s or the 1820s and at the same time landing us with a running headache in America than could cross-polinate ideas back to our native radicals...
Exploding with the failure of the Great Reform Act to pass through Parliament?