[Regia-NA] Have a Happy.....:-)

[Frojel Gotlandica]

You left out
 England continues to transport convicts to America and Australia not discovered untill the 20th century. 
LOL.

--Original Message Text---
From: Jack Garrett
Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2004 13:02:16 -0700 (PDT)

My two cents on alternative history (All in fun, please don't take it seriously.):

-  Napoleon Bonaparte is unwilling to sell "Louisiana" to the Commonwealth of North America (CNA), 
even if he does need the money desperately.  France maintains an extended presence in North America, 
including the province of Quebec.

-  A radical group using "Libert‚, Egalit‚, Fraternit‚" as a rallying cry, attempts a French revolution.  Few 
pay attention and the effort is quashed.

-  A smaller CNA is less aggressive with Spanish and Mexican possessions (no Gadsden Purchase, no 
battle of the Alamo, no Mexican War of 1848, no Spanish/American War), with most of the West remaining 
in shifting Spanish/Mexican/French hands.

-  Without a US driven by "Manifest Destiny", Alaska remains in Russian hands.  North American conflict 
drains everybody's treasuries.  Continuing Russia/China-type border conflicts in the Northwest Territories.

-  North American borders run North/South rather than East/West.

-  With Germany left out of costly border wars in North America, it wins World War I and occupies 
France.  Wine quality deteriorates, but the waiters are more courteous.

-  Without a ruinous Treaty of Versailles as a rallying cry, former Corporal Adolph Hitler has an extended 
career as a wallpaper hanger.

-  Jerusalem is established as the capital of Palestine.  Most of the the Middle East selects the 8th century as 
a governing model.

-  Without artificial outside support, oil-producers in the Mideast are taken over in time-honored European 
tradition.  Production is constantly interrupted by border wars.

-  Italy remains largely irrelevant.  Italians continue to create great art and frequent governments.

-  "Colonial" territories in North America form a Union - and squabble about currency for decades.

-  Japan occupies most of the Pacific.

-  China manufactures everything for everybody.

-  Germany puts the first man on the moon.

-  Aliens land in ... well, that's enough for now.


Jack Garrett
Regia Anglorum
North America

J K Siddorn <kim.siddorn at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
I too raised a glass to our American friends and relations. As revolutions go it was pretty civil.

An interesting "What if ..." for scholars of the period is what if representation had accompanied taxation? A 
British
Empire that included the Commonwealth of North America would have been a very different historical 
influence in the
years that followed.

Comments will be read with great interest at this end!

Regards,

Kim Siddorn,
Regia Anglorum

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Jack Garrett" 
To: "list-Regia-NA" 
Sent: Sunday, July 04, 2004 6:53 PM
Subject: Re: [Regia-NA] Have a Happy.....:-)


> Thanks for the kind thought. I've always been grateful that our founding fathers could draw upon their 
English
heritage for inspiration when deciding how to put together a new country. Most revolutions leave little but 
discontent
and corruption on which to build. We started with deeply held convictions about law, individual rights and 
the
limitations of power.

> Then again, it was useful to take advantage of the ongoing antagonism between the English and French to 
manage a
little independence...

> Independence and peace to all,

> Jack

> Hazel Uzzell wrote:
> Happy Independence Day to all:-)
> I sang a chorus of 'Mine Eyes Have Seen...' along with the Sally Army on
> the radio this morning in your honour...I even felt moved to take the
> descant part. Fortunately, Ian was out at a show and the cat was safe in her
> basket behind the door....!:0
> Hazel

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