WI: France "Wins" French and Indian War/7 Years War

What if William Pitt hasn't become Prime Minister, which led to France winning the war and acquiring the English colonies in the Americas.


How would this affect history?
 
What if William Pitt hasn't become Prime Minister, which led to France winning the war and acquiring the English colonies in the Americas.


How would this affect history?


How would the French gain the 13 colonies? Most of their army was in Europe. I could see the French getting Ohio Country, maybe parts of New England and parts of British Canada and keeping it's territory in India.
 
Fate of New France Was Sealed

French victory in the French & Indian War would have only delayed the inevitable. Emigration policies instituted by Richelieu in the 1620's doomed New France by denying the opportunity to precisely those Frenchmen who actually wanted to go, i.e. Huguenots and others tainted by heresy. Accordingly, by the time of the war there were around 50,000 Europeans in New France, compared to well over a million in the American colonies.

If the French had won their forts on the frontier of settlement would have been put under ever increasing pressure by the force of thousands of Americans moving in. Over time the demographic pressure would have been irresistible and the British colonials would have taken over the interior of North America the same way Americans took Texas from Mexico in 1848.

What is interesting to contemplate is the fate of Canada. The British would surely have made another try at conquest and probably would have eventually succeeded...but you never know. In any event, New France would have been limited to eastern Canada - the west would have definitely gone British/American.
 
Then France kicks the British out of India. South India will be heavily French influenced, and how that French influence works will ultimately affect the rest of India. In the East, Chandernagore was already catching up to Calcutta and was projected to be even more productive, so shoring up their influence there would be really important. The way I see it, Bombay is the only port the British retain, and I can't see them mounting any sort of influence there the way they did in Bengal; Gujarat has already seen lots and lots of foreign trade- enough to know how to play the traders against each other.

France gets the Ohio Valley, and New France and Louisiana are relatively secure. However, unlike what applegar says, I believe that any 'Americans' (and I use that terms loosely, since the colonies weren't very unified, especially in the beginning) would assimilate; perhaps bringing in new methods of farming, etc. etc. but in the end creating a new 'Louisianan' identity, separate from that of the British Colonies. The Hudson Bay Company loses its land to New France; that's a given. If the British cannot take Canada, then the land is effectively useless, and is sold for a tidy sum. So the west would indeed be French.
 
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