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As part of the wider Napoleonic Wars Britain invaded the Spanish held territory of The River Plate in 1806/1807. Today this encompasses both Buenos Aires and Montevideo. ITOTL Britain was unsuccessful suffering a humiliating defeat to mainly local militia forces which included African slaves and Creoles. This victory also ignited a feeling of self determination and independence amongst the defenders. Probably hastening their eventual emancipation and their rejection of imperial rule.

WI however Britain had been successful and had decided to make The River Plate a British colony? How long could this colony have lasted under British rule? What long lasting cultural, economic and political effect would it had had on South America? And lastly how would this have benefitted the British in the immediacy and in the long term?
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