On this day in 1775

On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 10:26 AM, Larry C. Lyons <larryclyons@gmail.com>wrote: > > they did fight a war a few decades later and the americans got their > butts collectively handed to them. > Yeah, but we won when it counted! But really the Revolutionary War was a close run thing. If the French > were defeated at the Battle of the Capes or did not land almost 10,000 > soldiers under Rochambeau then its very possible that the American > Revolution would have failed. One possible result would have been very > different treatment of the colonies. The British after the war had > made changes to the colony structure in Canada - a more authoritarian > system under the Governor-General for instance. I remember one > speculation the prof gave in my intro to Canadian history class is > that independent legislatures in the colonies would have developed > much more rapidly than it did subsequent to the war. Another big > change would have been the treatment of the Indian tribes in the north > west. The pattern of westward expansion would have been very different > less in the Ohio Valley and more to the south. > Oh there were a lot of what-ifs that could have caused the revolution to fail. It's still a miracle that we won that war. YOu talk about very different treatment of the colonies...do you see any such treatment that could have resulted in the colonies not attempting another revolution? It was inevitable, wasn't it?