The only way is a disastrous defeat at the beginning like they realize they poked a bear ( not a Russian one)
In a dead tl with a similar premise I argued as the revolution died so fast people would try it again as could blame awful organization to the first try?
I think 1776 Battles of New York were the only chance for this. Washington’s army, incl. the bulk of the Siege of Boston veterans was defeated in open battle and surrounded with their backs to the water by the largest army Britain had ever deployed to the Americas twice in a row. Both times Howe let them get away to the interior instead of decisively crushing them then and there.
This was already resolved. The Proclomation line was a pro-settler policy, to make sure the South East was settled by British colonists. This would have prevented any encroachment from Spainish or French Colonists.
British colonists were to egalitarian for nobility to work. Which is why it failed in the American, Australasian and African colonies. As for whether it colonial upper classes wanted that status, idk?
All they wanted was autonomy, which they had prior to post-7yw. So a giant conglomerated state isn't essential.
No French funding, no Napoleon, no Spanish rebellions.
What does this even mean?
France was already in a financial pit before the war. All that the ARW did was make an extremely bad situation which France almost certainly wasn’t going to fix to one in which the almost was gone.
I think he means Prussia, but again they only send Von Steuben and by the POD he might not even arrive.
Prussia didn’t send von Steuben. Benjamin Franklin MET him through French contacts, helped him puff up his resume, and then Steuben came on his own.
Maybe he's talking about the Hessian troops brought in by the British?
I don't think so. As the British marched into the area people were racing to Concord to warn them that "THE BRITISH ARE COMING, THE BRITISH ARE COMING!" Such a large force marching though, a heavily populated hostile region could hardly expect to gain operational surprise. The march to Concord was a reckless venture that could have led to the loss of the whole force. The British were fortunate that a major made the decision to take the north Rd. to Charlestown, rather than the south Rd to Boston Neck. The Patriots had dismantled the bridge at Cambridge and would have trapped the whole force there. If that had happened the British might have evacuated Boston right then and there. The defense of the city might have been untenable with half the garrison captured.
I think it’s also worthwhile to note that the British themselves weren’t thrilled to grant significant honors to the lowly colonials either.When The Australian government tried to make Blamey a Field Marshal, the British government ended up making all sorts of excuses against it, claiming dominion generals cannot be made FMs even though Smuts was made one.
