| Tango01 | 15 Aug 2022 9:14 p.m. PST |
…. Independence?
"What if America's most patriotic holiday was not July 4, but December 25?
It could have been the day the British crown got its best Christmas gift ever. All it would have taken was a simple slip by a colonial rebel. His rifle, crashing to the frozen ground, discharges… the shot echoing clearly through the crisp, clear winter night. On the river banks, the alarm sounds. The Hessian garrison at Trenton rouses to its posts. Washington's troops are trapped crossing the Delaware. The British counterattack drives the rebel forces from their encampment at Valley Forge. George Washington is captured. The Continental Army evaporates. The rebellion is crushed. What would life be like today, in a world in which there never was a United States of America?…"
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| 42flanker | 15 Aug 2022 11:22 p.m. PST |
"Washington's triumph gave the crown one less continent to worry about in its decade long struggle with France for the mastery of Europe. With the American Revolution ended, the pushy colonials looked after themselves and stopped trying to snag Canada." A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away |
| arthur1815 | 16 Aug 2022 4:48 a.m. PST |
"the pushy colonials looked after themselves and stopped trying to snag Canada." Seems to ignore the attempted invasions of Canada in 1812, 1813 and 1814! |
| Au pas de Charge | 16 Aug 2022 6:22 a.m. PST |
Seems to ignore the attempted invasions of Canada in 1812, 1813 and 1814!
If you read the author's bio, you'll see he is more ideology than history.
I would imagine the British reprisals would've been shocking enough to cause a second go at Independence.
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| noggin2nog | 16 Aug 2022 6:42 a.m. PST |
At least you could still use the fireworks on November 5th. |
| Stryderg | 16 Aug 2022 7:27 a.m. PST |
No McDonalds or iPhones. The horror!! |
Frederick  | 16 Aug 2022 3:44 p.m. PST |
We Canadians would have had to deal with Mr. Trump and Ms. Pelosi No thanks |
| Tango01 | 16 Aug 2022 3:44 p.m. PST |
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| Buck215 | 17 Aug 2022 5:30 p.m. PST |
We would all be speaking English… |
| Au pas de Charge | 17 Aug 2022 7:37 p.m. PST |
We would all be speaking English… Actually, we would all be speaking American. What we consider the English accent is a post Revolutionary War development partly introduced to distinguish the British from the newly independent colonial Americans. The original English accent is more like the mid Atlantic accent of the USA. |
| arthur1815 | 18 Aug 2022 5:57 a.m. PST |
There was/is no such thing as 'the English accent' but a wide variety of accents – and in the eighteenth century, dialects too – so that inhabitants of Cornwall, Birmingham and County Durham still pronounce words quite differently. I'm certain they did not adopt their accents to distinguish themselves from the newly independent Americans.
I suspect the speech of the colonists must have reflected those parts of Britain from which they originated. |
| 42flanker | 18 Aug 2022 11:28 a.m. PST |
"partly introduced to distinguish the British from the newly independent colonial Americans" What was the other part, I wonder? Out of respect for Geroge III, perhaps:
"What, what, what?" |
| Tango01 | 18 Aug 2022 3:54 p.m. PST |
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