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Especially in Napoleonic or Louisiana related "what ifs" so many AH posters talk about how Britain would just keep Louisiana (or Haiti or whatever is being discussed) just because they could conquer it (was there anything outside of Europe that Britain COULDN'T?). IMHO that's not how Britain worked in OTL and that's not how Britain would in a realistic ATL either.
Britain conquered just about everything overseas that was French or Dutch and kept very little. They gave Guadaloupe to Sweden as promised to get them in the war (and Sweden turned around and sold it back to France afterwards). After what in the USA is called the French and Indians the British could have taken more in the Americas but didn't, and in fact returned quite a bit to the French.
So, my question is- What would history have been like if after every war the English/British said "We'll keep everything we occupied during that war" and did this for every war?