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Spain and the United Kingdom were frequently at war with one another in the eighteenth century.
I'm looking for a scenario during this period in which Britain receives all (or a huge portion) of Mexico as spoils of war (with the assistance of anti-Spanish Mexicans) during one of these periods of time and begins using it as an early penal colony (Irish indentured servitude mostly) until *The Mexican War of Independence sometime between the 1770's and the 1820's. Thus, "briefly" British Mexico.
What are the effects in North America (specifically Mexico) and in Europe?
What changes are made in Mexico itself before *The Mexican War of Independence? English integrated gradually into the Mexican form of Spanish? Catholicism losing power in the regional governments? American support during the *Mexican War for Independence?