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  1. 1812: Napoleon attacks

    err, I doubt it. The British West Indian fleet would blast any invasion attempt out of the water.

  2. WI the Philippines joined the British Empire?

    What was the constitutional relationship between the US and the Philippines during the period? I'm assuming that the Philippines was effectively a US protectorate and that the US dictated foreign policy and occupied military bases, but stayed out of domestic politics. Can anyone fill us...

  3. 1812: Napoleon attacks

    When the US finally plucked up the courage to declare war on Britain in 1812, there was talk of simultaneously declaring war on the French, for similar insults against US trade and sailors. This didn't happen because: 1. The Republicans were broadly francophile and anglophobe. 2. It would...

  4. WI the Philippines joined the British Empire?

    Associate member status within the Commonwealth in the 1930s would have essentially made the Phillipines a British protectorate. After 1932 Britain had also resurected the Imperial Tariff system - something which caused considerable tension with the US and prompted the drafting of the...

  5. Fenian Republic of Upper Canada

    Regardless of what happens in North America the British would not dissolve the Union of 1801, just to regain a colony which was on the cusp of becoming a dominion and which was a strategic liability. How likely is it that the US would simply up and declare war on Britain just after concluding...

  6. The Glorious Revolution...

    1. Personally I think yes, maybe not in 1789, but eventually, the French state was already staggering under the weight of the debts it had acrued following 100 years of on-off warfare with Britain. Government debt and economic stagnation had been the primary reason for French intervension in the...

  7. WI US / British War of 1837?

    Says who?? The whole process of Anglo-American nuclear co-operation is tip-top secret, no-one knows exactely how it works. Personally I find it doubtful that the US would simply hand nukes over to Britain without retaining some failsafe for preventing them being used against American targets...

  8. WI US / British War of 1837?

    Given that the UK's 'independent' nuclear deterrent is bought from, maintained by, and used in 'cooperation' with (ie with the permission of), the US the idea of a trident being dropped on Washington is laughable. Given the unhealthy, sycophantic attitude of the present British Government...

  9. WI US / British War of 1837?

    Oh lord, not another Anglo-American War scenario.... There are already loooadds of these kicking about on this thread, covering wars breaking out at just about ever conceivable point between 1815 and 1939. Generally speaking the rule of thumb is before 1914 the US gets bent over and given...

  10. World War II without the USA

    Without lend-lease, or destroyers for bases Britain's credit in the US runs out in mid-1941 and the nation would either be forced into an armistice, or would have to drastically scale back operations - possibly suing for peace in the Pacific. There is a break in the Commonwealth as ANZAC...

  11. Would America really nuke Germany?

    Wasn't the bomb used on Japan primarily because of fears of the huge casuality rate that would arise from a full scale invasion of the home islands? The Germans in western Europe never displayed anything like the level of fanatical resistance to the western allies that the Japanese did. By...

  12. India 1857: More than you can chew

    1. This would be harder, the reason that the mutiny spread so successfully in central and north east India was that the majority of European troops were stationed in the Punjab following the last Anglo-Sikh war. Any attempt at revolt in the Punjab could be much more swiftly moved against. 2...

  13. American Falklands

    They'd have to establish a settlement there quickly, Argentinian settlers were removed in 1831 and the British returned in Jan 1833. What is likely to make the US so keen on the islands to send ships and men to settle and defend the islands in such a short space of time? I doubt the US would...

  14. Aftermath of Fashoda

    Germany would probably be happy at the souring of Franco-German relations and would leave it at that. The Germans would not need to be tied to a full-blown alliance with the British, they would simply need assurance that the British planned to remain neutral in a war against France. Britain...

  15. England outlaws slavery sometime between 1650 and 1670

    Yep, on St Kitts in 1692 and on Barbados in 1686, plots were uncovered where Irish indentures and black slaves had thrown there lots in together and were plotting a revolt. Unlikely, it was during the Commonwealth that the moral arguement against slavery was lost for another 150 years, the...

  16. England outlaws slavery sometime between 1650 and 1670

    Difficult but not impossible: 1. You would need a much greater degree of forced migration into the colonies. Black slavery took off so rapidly in the West Indies and American colonies because of a shortage of workers in the very labor intensive sugar and tobacco industries. Between the 1640s...

  17. The Anglo - American War

    Not to mention that in the late C18th / early C19th the average New Englander felt they had more in common, in terms of fashion, literature, politics and economic habits with Britons, than they did with southerners.

  18. British avoid massacre at Omaha Beach?

    Which is strange because the in initial phases of overlord weren't there more British / Commonwealth troops deployed in Normandy than Yanks? Would an all American venture have been a far smaller operation, or would it be based on funnelling the entire allied army through two beach heads...

  19. British avoid massacre at Omaha Beach?

    The main difference is that the British would have had armoured support, be it in the form of the 79th armoured, or simply the fact that they released their DD's closer to the shore and thus lost far fewer during the landing process. I'm guessing this would have made a big difference...

  20. a more equal world (no gap between first/third world)

    You'd need a world with either far, far more resources, or one much more eco friendly. If most of the world was consuming resources and producing waste at the rate of the US today then the earth would probably resemble a cats litter tray within ten years.
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