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Posted by AlM on Fri Jun 24 22:11:27 2016, in response to Re: Britain votes to leave the EU, posted by 3-9 on Fri Jun 24 15:39:20 2016. It might even would have happened before the 20th century, but the US would be smaller and probably not a superpower (other chunks of North America would probably have stayed in other countries' hands, not willing to sell to Britain).France really needed the money in 1803. If they had tried to hold on to Louisiana it could have been very expensive for them. By 1815 it would have been British anyway. Napoleon would have probably gone down to defeat sooner if in addition to the Russians and the Brits he also had to fight a holding action against the British North American colonists. And Spain wouldn't have been any more able to hold on to Mexico, or Mexico to its northern reaches. Of course, the southern British colonies might not have taken kindly to Britain abolishing slavery in 1833. The British North America Act of 1867 might have created a really huge country. |
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