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Published: 2011-10-29 15:54:15 +0000 UTC; Views: 54725; Favourites: 2043; Downloads: 165
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Such a great question that got me thinking interesting things!..I could make a whole Doujin out of this idea if I had time!anyways here are more thoughts on thisβ¦.I researched other peoples ideas on this subject at this was my favorite answer:
βThe British had a hard time believing that one of their upstart colonies could actually beat them in battle. They were a world power, but at the time, they were severely overstretched, France was fighting them on the European continent and America was really far off to quickly get British troops on her shores. Plus that, the French were here, too! Be safe in knowing, though, that the Brits had plans once the Colonies caved. First, and foremost was the plan to turn it back into the British colonies and setting up a British governor in each state (they had already started doing this). The British Prime Minister, Lord North, planned on letting the colonials off with a wrist slap, though. They would have been given the right to tax themselves and the colonials would be forgiven for their transgressions against the motherland. However, the Continental Congress would have been abolished. There was no need to have any more sedition coming out of them and the leaders would have been hung. This includes people like Washington, Jefferson, Adams, and Franklin. All British Loyalists within the states would be repaid for their losses in full. They also planned on giving the land north of the Ohio River to the Great Lakes to Canada.
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Bur if he didn't success, Latin america may be like un-inspired and continue under the control of Spain and then I would be using "vosotros" instead of "nosotros"....
On the other hand, Mexico could still be like the second biggest country in the world...and still had California....
AGH!!!
Mixed emotions!! D:
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...also...so I don't know what would be best...
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Don't forget Texas! Mexico would also still have his glasses.
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...also...so I don't know what would be best...
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But I guess the past is the past, too. 
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I was going to say that this reminded me of a fanfic, but ~oceanlover4evr beat me to it... Still, a fabulous picture.
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fff so glad we won...but then....if we lost maybe prussia would still be existent the cold war may never have happened and i may have a british accent and slurp tea like a...a...Brit.
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I've never thought of this before....
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Brilliant. In every way possible.
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interesting, maybe canada would have ended up with 14 or even 15 provinces and territorys. so many things wold have changed if america lost the revolutionary war. who know what could have happened. imagine canada would have become eve more loyal to britain and more of a pacifist country after seeing all the poinless fighting.
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ah yes its interesting to think about the possibilities
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Yay Canada looks so cute with those glasses!
(I am a Canadian, who ironically wears glasses) XD
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I love Canada in glasses!
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what was the civil war like for America? did he start punching himself or something?
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LOL I did a little bit with that..its like he had split personality
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obviously he split in two, with the originally trying to get back to being 1 and the new one trying to become his own person, in the end they went back to being 1 ^.^
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This is definitely an interesting possibility to consider.
Personally, I think America wouldn't have just given up. The Americans were at the point where anything the British did was just fuel on the fire(the Tea Act actually reduced the price of tea, but the colonists still hated it because accepting it would mean accepting parliment's right to tax them) and most of the country was on the patriot's side, openly or not. The British might give the colonies the right to tax themselves, but Britain was hugely in debt at this time, so either this would change and new taxes would be imposed or the states would be forced to overtax their citizens to raise money for Britain. Either way, the colonists would blame the British for high taxes. Also, now that they'd started considering themselves a seperate country, it was really too late to go back. The colonists had lost all respect for the British and proven to themselves that they could function as their own country. To them, there was no reason to remain under British rule.
Most likely, the many of the leaders of the revolution would escape, those that didn't would become martyrs, resistance would move underground, and a second war would break out within ten years. The British, already weakened by the first war, would likely lose. Or, the British might have simply granted the Americans independence once they became too difficult(read: expensive) to handle.
Plus, I can't see Al giving up and being "docile." He's too stubborn. Anything England did to him would only make him more determined.
But that's just me
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Ah its true....I don't believe he would have stayed "tame"the American spirit is too stubborn for that
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Indeed it is.
But that's why we love him
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But we won, so HAHA England~!
Awesome "what-if" scenario, though!
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Prussia was having an 'I WARNED YOU DOG.' 'I TOLD YOU BRO' moment
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yes that is it LOL
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We just finished this section in history. I never thought about what would happen from a Hetalia perspective.
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yes I love history and have thought about this way before Hetalia...just putting it there makes it more visually interesting
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"Prussia is disappointed" XD
someone needs to make a comic about the ridiculous notion of manifest destiny
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Would I be bad/extremely British if I said I favoured this outcome?
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Well I'm the same
Got to love us Brits
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Yes, we Brits are amazing in quite a pompous way. XD
... Were we really even that bad as an empire? All the little English colonies in Africa and India that we had... after they got their independance, they seemed to be a lot worse off afterwards...
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Ahh that is a point P:
I guess it's mainly that we were power hungry though like "hahaha... I have yet another colony" and countries just wanted to be free; even if they did end up worse of. Don't know OTL
We're still amazing though
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Well, power hunger comes with being a superpower. Think of China at the moment. XD
But they still ended up worse off so I wonder that, if the choice arose, would they still choose freedom?
I dunno either. OTL
And yes... yes we are. =3
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True 
Hmm... not sure :S
Whoo
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But they're not even communist anymore...
And the pound's not failing!
... Isn't it?
Shoop da woop.
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Ahh well... it's the theory going around either way P:
Yup, which is why it's awesome we opted out of joining this "all powerful" Euro
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The euro's the reason I think the Greek economy's so effed up at the moment, to be honest. It's only good to have an 'all powerful' economy when you can keep up with all the other countries.
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That's true. The Euro does annoy me though with the whole idea that it would be some super currency; we're British, we have out queen on our currency - how is this weird?
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I know! The pound is part of what makes us who we are! We're already losing our national identity really quickly because of immigration and selling all of our companies to other people, mostly China. So for us to get the euro instead... would be just plain stupid. The pound's doing better, anyway. =3
...
I actually thought of a hetalia doujinshi about this matter. And also about the history of Britain.
But of course, since I suck at drawing... XD
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Is is; it's kind of sad that we seem to becoming more European and less British, if that makes sense. So much of the UK is immigrants and there's more foreign shops and food than local ones. It's sad how people seem to want to get rid of the monarch too; it's part of the British image (seen as I have no better way of putting it) and our history - I'd hate to lose the queen.
And fair enough
Aww D: Shame; I'd read it
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Know anyone who'd be willing to draw out my ideas in comic form? =3
I think the UK's strength and weakness now is its generosity. To be an all-powerful country, you need to have no benefits system or free healthcare, where people really need to work and hard to make a decent living. I think that it's a great thing that we have them, but that's part of the reason people immigrate over here in the first place, and why some people are incredibly lazy. And I'd hate it if we lost the monarchy completely.
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Not sure D:
Ahh true, sounds about right. It annoys me how so many immigrants end up with better conditions than out elderly though
Losing the monarch would be terrible D:
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I can't really talk from experience about the elderly though. It seems that all of my grandparents are doing pretty well, but I think that something does need to be done to improve facilities for elderly people everywhere. We need to take care of them more.
Actually, I almost saw the Queen on Friday. She went to Margate, which is very near where I live!
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Aye :S It's like when it was in the news about some elderly woman dying in her home because she couldn't afford heating so she died of cold.
Nice
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