The Best Scenario for British Empire...?

The best scenario for the British Empire is to keep the Revolutionary War in the 13 colonies to happened and to give them a dominion status by 1800 to satisfy the demands of the colonists of more representation.

With the collapse of the Spanish Empire, Great Britain could grab their some colonies such as the entire Viceroyality of Rio de la Plata, Cuba, Philippines, and Puerto Rico which are most stategic colonies of the crumbling Spanish Empire.

Also, British support the Taiping rebellion to overthrow the Qing Dynasty. If they could overthrow them, the British could get the large chunk of China.
 

archaeogeek

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The best scenario for the British Empire is to keep the Revolutionary War in the 13 colonies to happened and to give them a dominion status by 1800 to satisfy the demands of the colonists of more representation.

With the collapse of the Spanish Empire, Great Britain could grab their some colonies such as the entire Viceroyality of Rio de la Plata, Cuba, Philippines, and Puerto Rico which are most stategic colonies of the crumbling Spanish Empire.

Also, British support the Taiping rebellion to overthrow the Qing Dynasty. If they could overthrow them, the British could get the large chunk of China.

The British couldn't conquer Rio de la Plata when the Spanish empire was collapsing IOTL... They're most certainly not grabbing bits of China unless they want to have their people dying by millions to hold on it.
 
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The British couldn't conquer Rio de la Plata when the Spanish empire was collapsing IOTL... They're most certainly grabbing bits of China unless they want to have their people dying by millions to hold on it.

It's not as if that was a full-blooded invasion (that is to say, it was neither a large force nor was it supported with reinforcements) and it was hardly when the Empire was crumbling...It was just a speculative attack which went wrong due to the human factor, and which the British didn't bother trying to salvage.
 

archaeogeek

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It's not as if that was a full-blooded invasion (that is to say, it was neither a large force nor was it supported with reinforcements) and it was hardly when the Empire was crumbling...It was just a speculative attack which went wrong due to the human factor, and which the British didn't bother trying to salvage.

The british don't have a much better history with 18th century amphibious assaults... Cartagena de Indias was minor too? The British Empire was in no position to do major south american landgrabs at any time in the 18th century, period (Florida was nearly uncolonized swampland most of which still belonged to the Seminole), except maybe Patagonia when Spain wasn't looking. Moghul India IOTL was stretching it and would likely not have been possible were it not for the empire being weakened by war with Persia before. And even then Britain didn't take over except in Bengal until the EIC blew it.
 
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