What if the English established a Cape Colony before the Dutch? The Dutch set up the Cape Colony in 1652, the English could do it any time between the era of Raleigh and Gilbert in the 1580s up to about 1650.
How is the English colony likely to expand and develop? If the English colony becoming a growing entity during this time period, could it plausibly fight and win a battle for independence before 1800?
Going to throw in a random question about OTL English colonization- which came first, Jamestown or the first English colony in the Caribbean? And about French colonization- Acadia or a Caribbean locale? And Dutch colonization - New Amsterdam or a Caribbean island?