ALX wrote:
Guess it just matters what side of the Atlantic you're on (your opinion on the American Revolution that is)
COME ON
WE ARE KIDDING
Jeez. Read the damn small print in the spoiler. Read the tone. READ MY SIGNATURE. I'm a fucking republican (no, not in the American political sense, read up on it) socialist, I am utterly against the monarchy and aristocracy. KIDDING
Damn Yanks, so easy to pull their strings.
I mean there is a degree of truth to all that I suggested in the original post about how the world would have turned out. But without the Soviet Union or WW2 we probably wouldn't have put a man in space as quick as we did, and there'd have not been as much emphasis on splitting the atom and creating a without military funding that came with WW2.
But Britain did lead the world in aboloshing slavery throughout the empire by 1807, quite a while before the 13th Amendment. It'd be a different world, that much is sure.
Found this when looking for something I read on this topic a few years ago, some of the answers are fucking hilarious:
http://uk.answers.yahoo....id=20070318092453AAl2PQz"We would be like Canada or Australia, a country under British rule.
Instead of having a president, the King and Queen of England would be in charge." WHAT? A) Queen Elizabeth is not the Queen of England, there is no such role, and there has not been since the Act of Union in 1707. Her full title is Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of Her other Realms and Territories Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith. She is the monarch of (and so Head of State) 16 countries, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Jamaica, Barbados, the Bahamas, Grenada, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Belize, Antigua and Barbuda, and Saint Kitts and Nevis. B) Canada was granted dominion status in 1867 and from then own Canadians controlled all Canadian domestic policy. Australia was originally 4 self-governing provinces as early as 12 years before Canada, and they united in a federal state of Australia in 1901. They both had independence proper by the 1930s, when the Americans were still holding a colonial grasp over Puerto Rico, Guam, Phillipines, Cuba and others.
Damn ignorant idiots. I can guarantee you that if the war of independence had been lost that America would not be still under British rule. Bloody nora.
