WI: American revolution sees the 13 colonies independent but nothing more?

Britain would quite easily be able to enforce the treaty imo, particularly if the 'protected indians' protest against American incursion. A compromise might be if the American settlers forgo American citizenship for British settler status? How realistic is this part, would either side want it?


That's not so different from what really happened in Upper Canada.

You got many Americans migrating west without paying much attention to political boundaries, so that a New England family might move to Upstate NY, then on into UC, where they came back under British rule, and subsequently further west still into Michigan or Wisconsin, where of course they became Americans again. As I understand it, there were so-called "Late Loyalists" migrating across the border well into the 1800s. Even in the Wo1812, they showed little or no inclination to rise against Britain.

Don't know how that would work out on a bigger scale, but it sounds at leat possible.
 
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