Let's assume France and its allies win in 1758 during the seven years war.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Years'_War
What about consequences in the short term? France would probably preserve her colonnies in America and India, and Prussia would be weakened, ...but what else??? This war can be considered a world war, as it involved fighting not only in Europe but also in Quebec, Montevideo, Manila, La Habana, India.... So, had the French won, changes could be huge (fromn OTL's point of view)...
And afterwards? Would we still see an American revolution in some form? A Fernch Revolution? And industrial revolution in England?
Would the world be radically to different from ours? Or would the French become too ambitious, creating the conditions for the formation of an anti-French alliance between Great Britain, Austria, Rusia and the Netherlands. Would the probable French defeat make History "correct herself" and look more or less like OTL? (= the French defeat leading to discontent and a revolution; the British victory leading to an unified British North America that would eventually rebell, etc., etc.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Years'_War
What about consequences in the short term? France would probably preserve her colonnies in America and India, and Prussia would be weakened, ...but what else??? This war can be considered a world war, as it involved fighting not only in Europe but also in Quebec, Montevideo, Manila, La Habana, India.... So, had the French won, changes could be huge (fromn OTL's point of view)...
And afterwards? Would we still see an American revolution in some form? A Fernch Revolution? And industrial revolution in England?
Would the world be radically to different from ours? Or would the French become too ambitious, creating the conditions for the formation of an anti-French alliance between Great Britain, Austria, Rusia and the Netherlands. Would the probable French defeat make History "correct herself" and look more or less like OTL? (= the French defeat leading to discontent and a revolution; the British victory leading to an unified British North America that would eventually rebell, etc., etc.)