WI: English/British settler colonies in South America

[M.R.L]

If England had founded settler colonies in the Brazil/Argentina region (I imagine primarily southern Brazil given it's temperateness) could it have suceeded? what might the resulting country look like culturally and in potential power?

 

[walmart]

There an attempt to take Argentina in 1806

 

[RPW@Cy]

On the British side of things, can I draw your attention to the TL in my sig block?

 

[TFSmith121]

Not any time after Tordesillas...

If England had founded settler colonies in the Brazil/Argentina region (I imagine primarily southern Brazil given it's temperateness) could it have suceeded? what might the resulting country look like culturally and in potential power?

Not any time after Tordesillas... the Spanish and Portuguese would tend to object.

And before Tordesillas would require enough change in Europe to make what happens in South America seem fairly peripheral.

And, of course, North America was closer, less expensive in time and resources to get to from northwest Europe, and generally had a better climate - and it still took the British and French most of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth centuries to really establish themselves, and then most of the Eighteenth to sort out who got to stay.

And then that changed, for the fairly obvious reason that London and Paris were not willing to share power - with each other, or their colonists.

Best,