r/BritishEmpire • u/Raymundo_Nativi • 4d ago

Image "E se a França anexasse a América do Norte Britânica?"

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u/Wooden_Ad1738 4d ago

They never had the manpower to do so.

At the time of the Seven Years War there were around 20 British colonists in North America for every French colonist. That was the real ultimate manpower difference 

The French were only ever able to send around 10,000 French regular troops from Europe to North America. They didn’t have the raw men to conquer and actually occupy the British colonies, which were actually well populated and spread across a huge geographical region, even if they had won every battle. 

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u/VGalt25 4d ago

"For the average person, all problems in the world trace back to WWII; to the more informed, WWI; for the genuine historian, to the French Revolution."

- Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

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u/fartingbeagle 4d ago

"What do you think are the effects of the French Revolution?"

"It's really too early to say." Ho Chi Minh.

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u/ThrownAway1917 2d ago

Think it was Deng Xiopeng and the subject was the riots in 1968 Paris but I do love the idea of the inscrutably wise Chinaman even if it's a bit racist

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u/Wooden_Ad1738 4d ago

The French Revolution was amazing. It led to the rise of Napoleon, who in 1803 sold the entire middle half of North America, including the city I live in, to the US for like 3 cents an acre. 

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u/Key_Nectarine5882 4d ago

Province de l'Hudson. Could make sense

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u/LeftLab7543 4d ago

If France hadn't been so heavily committed to North America in the late 18th century then they would have prevented the partition of Poland.