Do you wish Great Britain won the Revolutionay War?

Question

If America had lost in the Revolutionary War, it would never have surpassed Great Britain in becoming the world's most powerful nation.

Answer 1

Well since you are dreaming, condsider this....

GB won the war. She went on to become the greatest power in the world. Her colonies included much of cnetral and western Europe. By the late 1930's one of her subjects began a rise to power by undermining the reigning monarch. In the early 1940's Adolph Hitler seized the throne of England and began a mass execution of billions of ethnic minorities.

I doubt you would be sitting there asking any questions under that rule.




g-day!

Answer 2

If I had too choose it would be Britain as they were the only true country from start to finish who were in the allies. Plus Hitler was planning ways to invade America after the take over of Britain which never happened. So you have to give Britain credit for the country which never gave in. America only got involved one because of Pearl Harbour and two the British had to pay them to help them in D-day, which is really stupid due to the fact that sooner or later America would be under attack if they didn't join. Although you can't write America off due to Hawaii and for helping the allies in D-day, but without a free Britain in the 40's it would have been harder to push the Nazi's back due to geographical location, lets face it you can see mainland Europe on a clear day from either Dover or Dungeness and the next nearest place would have been Iceland with little military equipment or facilities making it harder for America to push the Nazi's back if they could at all, but I do stand by that D-day may have failed without American assistance. Personally I think Britain won the war but lets be glad it ended how it ended with the defeat of the Nazi's.

Answer 3

Yes, England would have been so powerful , that our war with France (Napoleon) would have ended sooner. Germany would never had risked taking us on during the first world war, so all those people would not have died in the trenches, and thus the great depression would not have happened.

Hitler would never had risen to power, and slavery would have been abolished 50 years earlier in the US. President Marther Luther King would be sitting with JFK having a drink in the retirement home, as guns would never have been legalised, thus there would not have been so many gun crimes.

The English would not have cmmitted genicide against the Native American Indians or invaded Mexican terrotories, or the Philipines, or even forced Japan to open up, thus they would not have attacked Russia, or been a military power in WW11, but that would not have occured.

Without the holocaust, there would have been no establishment of the state of Israel, thus no Middle - east conflict.

What a shame america couldn't wait for thier independance from the UK, but choose to revolt when we were at war against Napoleon's France.

Answer 4

Why would we be better off? What does Britain do that is so great? And I also believe that we would have revolted sooner or later even if we would have lost. The reason why this country is so great is because we have such a mix of cultures that got us where we are today, we have intellect from all over the world. And yes we did some things that should have never happened in the earlier years to get us where we are but that doesn't mean that we won't continue to improve ourselves as a nation.

Answer 5

In some ways yes. One thing is for sure, had the American colonists lost the War of Independance, Americans today would be enjoying very much the same level of healthcare as we do here in UK and as the citizens of Canada also do.

Ask any citizen of Detroit this question; do you feel safer in Detroit or Toronto, just across the river in Canada?

Answer is always the same, Toronto.

Why? Canadians to not fear each other and are tolerant. There is a wide race mix in Canada. Native Canadian Nations have a high status and do not live on reservations but on their own National Land in Canada.

Americans won the War of Independance but in my opinion they have lost their liberty to big corporatations, big business and big political parties who simply use them for their votes and after an election pay scant attention to the needs of the people.

Poverty is widespread in USA whereas before the Revolution this was not the case. Ask Doctor Benjamin Franklin FRS, who spent 16 years in London England, fighting for a little more liberty in the Colonies.

Ask youself this question. Why did Ben Franklin's son return to England after the Revolution?

Ask youself this question. Why is the only surviving house belonging to Ben Franklin right here in London and open to the public and why are none of his houses in America left standing?

The American people have lost respect for their Revolution and it has brought them nothing but fear of each other and a lack of the basics which in UK and the EU we see as human rights - the right to a free primary & secondry education and free healthcare etc.

Americans just don't get it. They slog on thinking they will ultimately win the prize and find happiness. They will not. They have destroyed their own history of socialism and buried it so deep that the average American is quite unaware of it's historical meaning and significance for them. Without socialism the American dream is unachievable.

SORRY - SPELL CHECKER BUST...

Answer 6

Oh you mean the American war of Independence. No it might have been a British colony for a number of years but would eventually have achieved independence without the need of a war(e.g.Australia,Canada, India,New Zealand and so on).It is only the size of the United States and it's huge population and technology that allows it to dominate.. Doesn't mean it's best . Lot of good about it, but also areas of crticism too .

Answer 7

what revolutionary war was that then? oh, you mean the war of independence... and america never ever did surpass ENGLAND in anything... until you STOLE our technology...

our island will fit inside many of your states, and still we can win wars thousands of miles from home, and we can keep the peace without resorting to shooting folks.. unless your carrying a backpack and DONT stop when the police ask you to...

stop deluding yourself, america cant even look after itself, its economy is in ruins, its leader is a buffoon, a LIAR and a cheating COWARD... and still your dead prop up th evening news... as you say, things change, but they stay the same... for you lot anyway...

Answer 8

So what is your point. Canada and Australia have both done well in gaining individual freedoms which was the primary point. The the United States won the independence for the colonies pushed such freedoms along at a faster clip is likely true, but they would have come nonetheless.

It is strange but common law seems to have advanced for the individual faster in the colonies than it did in England even though that is the source of Magna Carta.

Answer 9

No, because eventually the US would have become an independent state anyway, and it might have been split up into multiple states when that happened, and if that was the case then wwe might not have won world war two and the whole world would have gone to hell.

Answer 10

They would have revolted sooner or later, we were quite brutal tyrants overseas. Either that or it would be like Australia is now - just another country in the Commonwealth but still an independent state.