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>be British empire
>have a whole world of conflicts with top quality foes hammering away at your global possessions
>the retards in your least lucrative colony start rebelling because the local merchants tricked them into thinking they could be free under their rule while in reality the merchants just want to stop paying the crown taxes
>handle the upstarts easily
>France and Spain use the distraction to lay a massive siege to Gibraltar, a far more important strategic location than some impoverished colony full of nig loving slave owners and wild Indians, with forces that dwarf everything both sides deploy in the American war
>given that Canada remains loyal and that the loss of Gibraltar would increase Spain's power and lead to the loss of many lucrative opportunities, the British decide to keep the forces deployed to the Americas to fight the hillbilly nog lovers minimal since the theater is of no real consequence anyways
>even with a minimum of attention and forces committed and the Americans fighting like dishonorable dogs the British still trounce the Americans time after time
>the Americans only win when the French show up to help them
>England wins the far more important Gibraltar battle and goes on to have a staggeringly lucrative 150 year long empire whose culture still dominates the world today and may dominate it until the end of time, with English dress and language being the default for the entire globe
>America refuses to acknowledge the French won their war for them and remains an insignificant backwater nation until WW2 where every significant power in the world disappears almost literally overnight
>even with no true global rivals it still takes the US until the 1990s to reach the same level of dominance the British had
>their global empire doesn't even 40 years as they let the Chinese totally outplay them and are on course to collapse entirely

Yeah mutt, good job helping the French win your war 200+ years ago. Oorah!