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

[John Michalski]

By '79 or '80 they may have decided this, but if a
couple of balls had bounced differently in the first
12 or 18 months of the war the story might have had a
very different ending - especially when you remember
that, by most estimates that I've read, only about 33%
of the colonists supported 'The Cause'.

What if Washington had been killed or captured during
the disasterous New York campaign? What if the
Continental Congress had been captured in the fall of
Philadelphia? What if Burgoygne (sp?) had been
successful at Saratoga? What if Louis XVI's ministers
had convinced him that the rebels were a bad horse to
back?

If there's one thing that my decdes of studying
history have taught me, it's that most events look
impossible before they happen, and inevitable after.

Just my take on things,

John
  

--- marfield66 at sympatico.ca wrote:
> I believe the Briish had already privately concluded
> that the revolutionary war was unwinnable due to the
> logistics of transporting continuous large numbers
> of troops and equipment ( the longer the supply
> lines the greater the risk of interception) and
> fighting a guerilla war over such a large area and
> over an extended time while maintaining a state of
> sufficient rediness to combat mainland France at any
> time.
> Martin
> 
> > 
> > From: John Michalski <jmichal2 at yahoo.com>
> > Date: 2004/07/05 Mon PM 07:07:09 EST
> > To: list-Regia-NA <list-regia-na at lig.net>
> > Subject: Re: [Regia-NA] Have a Happy.....:-)
> > 
> > Alternative history should ALWAYS be taken
> seriously.
> > We must remember that no past events or current
> > situations were/are inevitable! ;-)
> > 
> > Anway, I remember that back in the '70s 'Time' did
> an
> > alterna-history where the Americans lost the War
> of
> > Independence and Washington, Jefferson, et. al.
> were
> > nicely hanged.
> > 
> > North America east of the Mississippi and south of
> the
> > 49th Parallel remained a British Dominion. Bourbon
> > France, which did not support the Rebels, did not
> go
> > broke and did not have a Revolution, would not
> sell
> > Louisiana so the middle of the continent stayed
> > Francais. The west remained Spanish and Alaska
> > Russian.
> > 
> > An Anglo/French alliance flourished on both sides
> of
> > the Atlantic throughout the 19th Century, and
> Germany,
> > confronted with such an overwhelming opponent in
> 1914,
> > decided to behave. Neither World War happened, and
> > neither did the Cold War division of Europe.
> > 
> > Seem implausible? Perhaps. But if you think about
> it,
> > so does the course of events which actually took
> place
> > - IMHO.
> > 
> > John



		
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