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After the seven years war the 13 colonies get stroppy after some taxation issue and the British government has finally had enough. Say 1770. (Someone in the Treasury has actually done the sums, and they are seen as a ridiculous drain with no real return. And a war is definitely not seen as worth the expenditure. King George is kept happy, somehow).

So the governors and the British troops get on the ships and go elsewhere. Britain has washed their hands completely of the colonists. No dominion or protectorate status. Britain will treat them as foreigners from now on - like Denmark or Norway for example.

We now have the 13 squabbling colonies left completely to their own devices. No British troops to defend the place.

They do not have the revolution to persuade them to form a union now. So do they remain Balkanised, or form a looser union than OTL, or eventually manage incorporation into one entity?.

Do they have a nice series of little wars with each other?.

Will say France try to take over - and get herself bogged down in the tar-pit the British found the place to be in OTL? (And France was in a much worse state financially than the UK was)
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