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carpetbagger

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1. I don't think there would have been vigorous English colonies in N.A.

Reply to steve2470 (Original post)

Fri Nov 5, 2021, 05:05 PM

Nov 2021

Ascendant anticatholicism would move the Anglican church towards the puritans, deflating them, while the internal issues would have distracted from the other settlements. No New England, truncated southern colonies that would be in constant conflict with Spain. England may have had a colonial revolution, but it would have been derivative from some event that landed them a chunk of Spanish colonies.

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What if the UK Gunpowder Plot of 1605 had succeeded ? [View all] steve2470 Nov 2021 OP

I don't think there would have been vigorous English colonies in N.A. carpetbagger Nov 2021 #1

Fascinating take . . . Journeyman Nov 2021 #2