"How the y/a readers feel if British invasion of America in the early 1800's had have been successful

I seriously doubt that you would have the Internet today to be asking that question. British rule would have prevented the enterprise that allowed America to excel in the industrial revolution leading to the electronics revolution and thus the Internet.

The world would be somewhere, but I don't think it would be where it is today at this point.

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If the British had been able to hold a bit more of the Eastern Seaboard, there was a number of the older states ready to defect and rejoin the Empire as either an independant area or attached to Canada, this would have changed the look of the US as a lot of the manufacturing and resources availiable to the US in the mid 1800's would have been lost.

If this had happened it would have not changed a great deal until the 1880's when the civil war started, the Confederates would have been in a safer position and more equal to the Unions ability and as History has shown the only reason the Union won the war was the ability to rearm its forces quickly.

After that time, I feel that there would have been a number of factors that would have influenced History and could have caused the US not to enter either of the World Wars due to its more complicated situation.

Certainley the world would have been a different place.

jared_e4 has it right, the British were successful in all of their land campaigns, except for the Battle of New Orleans.

The Brits landed in Maryland, shelled the bejesus out of Fort McHenry, marched on Washington, brushing aside the resistance offered by the US Army. British officers sat down to a banquet in the White House before burning it. American campaigns in present day Michigan/Quebec didn't fair much better.

The only reason that England agreed to a peace treaty is because of the Napoleonic Wars. By 1815, England had been fighting a major land war on the European continent for 10 years (or so). Once Napoleon was defeated, England could have switched its blockades of French ports to American ones, and strangled the country to submission. It also could have transported its massive amounts of veteran troops and occupied much of the east coast. England just got tired of war. The peace treaty wasn't a victory for the Americans, they just used the victory at New Orleans to pretend that the US had won.

As a result, the US dropped its ambitions for foreign expansion (ie the Caribbeans, Central America, and South America) for about 40 years, and any serious attempts for almost 90 years.

We're not taught much if anything about the war of 1812 here in UK schools.

I have a vague idea that the British who had moved up to Canada taking about 100,000 loyal Brits from the American colonies with them, then had to confront the Continental Army who came north in about 1812.

There was also a sea battle on Lake Erie, [I think].

It's all a bit confusing really.

I mean, do Americans spend years at school pouring over the defeats and eventual withdrawal from Vietnam?

Probably not.

So, we Brits to not go over old ground opening up old wounds and worrying about what-ifs concerning the loss of the American colonies.

I just remember a scene from "The Madness of King George" when the king spins the globe around fast and stops it suddenly and pointing to America says, "gone, all gone".

You bet your kingship - gone indeed and gone forever.

The last time anyone made a suggestion about the colonies was way back when someone at the US Embassy here in London asked Lord Penn if he would consider selling the land which he owns upon which sits the US Embassy building.

His lordship said he would consider the matter but only if the Americans would be preparted to return to him the land taken from his family following the American War of Independence.

By all means, said someone at the US Embassy, thinking possibly that his lordship was talking about a small farm somewhere in New York State.

What land would your lordship like returned to you and your family from the former Colonies?

His lordship replied, Pennsylvania - it used to belong to my family - William Penn actually.

NO DEAL!

IT was successful!

The British burned down Washington, DC; amongst other places. They were just smart enough not to get bogged down in a quagmire thousands of miles away from home (unlike certain Texans named LBJ and W)

We Americans are taught in Elementary school, but corrected @the University/College, that we won the War, due to the Battle of New Orleans- which was 2 weeks after the treaty of Peace (but before the news reached- the post wasn't efficient in those days)

Personally, I wish you had stayed- Parliamentary govt is much better than this 2 party pathetic excuse for Democracy.

It would have left America with an advanced for its time bureaucracy and infrastructure, in time the American nation would have kicked and won independence, and the Americans would have prospered as much as countries that were colonised (eg India).

An interesting question would be how would Native Americans prospered had the original immigrant Americans not sought to wipe them out. In case you think I'm being anti-American, the same could be asked of Australia, and New Zealand

It wouldn't have lasted.

Britain would have found governing the American colonies just as annoying and as unwieldy and as difficult as it had in the mid- to late-1700s. Furthermore, the "colonies" would have, sooner or later, fought - again - for their independence. I would have been curious to know whether British occupation would have changed the outcome of the debate over slavery.

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It was successful.

Britain had no interest in or aim of permanent conquest of the USA, having her hands full with napoleon at the time.

We'd be stuck with George Bush but at least we'd have taught them how to spell