What if the 13 colonies lost the american revolutionary war?

Depends on when. If it happens before the Declaration of Independence, they get representation in Parliament, potentially along with the rest of Britain's colonies, but probably get taxed even more. After that, I don't have an idea.
 
Depends.

If the Galloway Plan (1774) or Olive Branch Petition (1776) is accepted you have a *dominion, literally, in all-but-name made and Americans get self-government and a united government under British auspices. The Carlisle Peace Commission (1778) I believe offered the same deal with the exception the colonies would be under individual *responsible government in all-but-name (since Lord North was desperate for peace but also wanted to take the wind out of sails wherever he could, even if it meant some colonies might've accepted, some may not have).

You could look to the Canadian and Eureka Rebellions as rough parallels of what might've been - many, MANY Britons were sympathetic to the American Revolution's origins straight up to the generals fighting the war itself (IE, John Burgyone) and so even in 'defeat' a lot of liberties and demands are given to the colonies once the marital law imposed is finished up. A lot of the sympathy had went away after France joined the rebellion - the British considered the Americans hypocrites to join with the ancient enemy - but the sympathy WILL re-develop as the peace helps ease hard feelings, and realizations of everything from the Americans having a point in representation to fear such crushed rebellions give justification to turn guns on the home islands' populace evolve.

The Americans WILL simmer enough that a *dominion or at least individual *responsible governments WILL have to develop to keep Americans from revolting again, as happened in the Canadian Rebellions come 1848 and the first proposals of Australian unification came in 1850. *Upper Canada, the *Northwest Territory, and *Southwest Territory (and Quebec in turn returned to its 1763 or limited to its 1791 borders) will be opened up to ease population pressure and as a radical's safety valve as well as ending a major American complaint, taxes will become a local colonial and not Parliamental issue since it's easier to not tax the Americans and let them govern themselves as they classically did than try to make a united imperial Parliament, and you may see local regiments built up as long as Americans man and fund them but answer to the Crown and Horse Guards. In effect, with distances in the 18th and early 19th century so far and communication so slow, America will become practically independent anyway barring allegiance to the Crown and British control of foreign and military affairs - American troops will be kept to North America as they traditionally were (not sent to Europe, or anything) and focused on the North American theater of any *French Revolutionary Wars.

Since the population of America exploded in the 1780s and 1790s they WILL expand westward and they'll actually be in accord with Britain in swiping colonies from France and Spain, as per tradition. In the *French Revolutionary Wars or some parallel 'colonial' conflict, Louisiana is conquered and probably the *Southwest as well during the said wars (Americans exploring the Southwest in 1800s, tiny but notable amounts of Americans settling Texas as early as the 1810s, American privateers attacking San Diego on their own and providing a match in the 1810s, etc. shows Americans were already penetrating those areas). Like the classic French and Indian Wars these wars will develop American nationalism and commonality, if also reviving a pride in the Empire, especially as any British troops themselves stationed at the frontier areas help so Americans and Britons can fight side-by-side and develop camaraderie.

Britain can subdue the colonies and impose its will, but like Canada and Australia it'll be forced to give into many American demands anyway for a myriad of reasons, from keeping a new revolt from occurring to the morality of keeping 'fellow Englishmen' under chains. Any pro-royal ascendency coming from crushing the ARW will inevitably fall off in time to allow cooler and more moderate heads to give *responsible government before the 18th century ends (possibly even during the 1780s if the ARW is crushed early enough, much less averted).

TL;DR American history will continue in very broad strokes as OTL (local governments develop, possibly-to-probably a united *dominion for all the English-settled colonies, settlers move westward, the population and economy explodes, Louisiana and possibly the *Southwest is taken during the *French Revolutionary and *Napoleonic age), but under the aegis of British suzerainty, especially since Britain will have to give in to many of the original demands to keep its hands from being tied up by any future American revolts.
 
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I expect there would be some sort of class-based revolt of white yeoman (particularly on the western frontier) some time between the French Revolution (which I expect to happen as OTL, unless the American Revolution is crushed very early) and maybe 1820. The next revolt is likely to be successful, and lead to the establishment of an even more egalitarian (for white men) polity, perhaps a bit more decentralized than the OTL Constitution.

This POD is also very good for the native peoples, who have an extra few decades of British patronage with which to arm and prepare themselves before state-supported settler violence moves west.
 
Perhaps we wouldn't see a cold war, nor a spanish American war. Or it would being britain vs spain and britain vs ussr.

For such long-term speculations, you might want to read "For Want of a Nail". Like anything its a speculation, but an interesting one.
 
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