WI/AHC: A British Philippines (or Elizabethia?)

I think the British would respect the cultures in the Philippines if they are the ones that colonized them first, it would mean that Luzon would be Kapampangan speaking which was inevitable before the Spanish even colonized the Philippines due to them respecting the culture and religion of the people instead of what the Spanish did in OTL to Central Luzon in which they depopulated it and repopulated Central Luzon with Tagalogs causing the Kapampangans to assimilate where the tagalogs are settled.
 

TFSmith121

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If you're talking 1760s, the issues are:

If you're talking 1760s, the issues are:

1. British/English elites are not particularly tolerant of Catholicism, whether as practiced by "whites" of European extraction or people of largely Asian and African or mixed cultural backgrounds;
2. British/English elites are not particularly tolerant of "non-white" cultures/societies as much more than subjects to be rolled for the economic benefit of the mother country generally and the financial interests of London, generally;
3. The "British" people left in charge in an annexed Phillippines are as likely to be the EIC as the crown, for whatever that's worth.

Something to be said (from the Filipinos' perspective) of the Spanish as imperial governors is at least they are the devils they know, so to speak.

And independent PI, along the lines of the Latin American republics assisted by the British as a strategic option during the Anglo-French wars of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth centuries is one thing; a Filipino "India" or "Malaya" is another.

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Well they did capture and hold Manila for two years until it was returned via the status quo ante bellum clause of the Treaty of Paris of 1763 since the news hadn't reached Europe yet. The main problem as in our timeline is going to be providing enough troops for a campaign that far away to pacify the other towns and countryside. If the news had gotten back before the treaty was negotiated which extra territory would the British have preferred to keep do people thing, Cuba or the Philippines?

It's far more likely to be the Philippines, given that the Spanish would be determined to hang on to Cuba. They'll fight tooth and nail to hand on to their most prestigious American colony.
 
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