A decisive United States victory in the War of 1812 would have fundamentally reshaped the geopolitical landscape of North America, potentially leading to the annexation of British North America (Canada) and shifting the domestic political balance toward the North earlier than in our timeline. While the war historically ended in a stalemate with the Treaty of Ghent returning boundaries to their pre-war status, a “total victory” would have involved achieving the U.S. aim of expelling the British from the continent.
I suppose we would have been a bilingual country much sooner, Fred. We had been on the way during recent years to becoming bilingual with English and Spanish; but having been bilingual since back then would have perhaps changed things. Perhaps the early Americans would have held it as a territory instead of making it a state.
A decisive United States victory in the War of 1812 would have fundamentally reshaped the geopolitical landscape of North America, potentially leading to the annexation of British North America (Canada) and shifting the domestic political balance toward the North earlier than in our timeline. While the war historically ended in a stalemate with the Treaty of Ghent returning boundaries to their pre-war status, a “total victory” would have involved achieving the U.S. aim of expelling the British from the continent.
I suppose we would have been a bilingual country much sooner, Fred. We had been on the way during recent years to becoming bilingual with English and Spanish; but having been bilingual since back then would have perhaps changed things. Perhaps the early Americans would have held it as a territory instead of making it a state.