Editor says, what if the revolutionaries of St John's Parish had seceded from the Loyalist Province of Georgia? muses John Braungart. Please note that the opinions expressed in this post do not necessarily reflect the views of the author(s).

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Editor says, further speculation - and even if the Colonists ~ do ~ manage to win in this scenereo, Georgia quickly makes a land-grab to the west, stopping the formation of the states of Alabama and Mississippi and denying the United States the Gulf of Mexico - and maybe even the Louisiana Purchase down the road....

Eric Oppen commented on 2010-07-08 02:56:23 ~ I'm not real clear on how the Revolution went in the South, but I thought that Georgia was just as annoyed with the home government (same problems) as the rest of the Thirteen Colonies. How about a scenario where Jamaica has enough good local leadership (most successful West Indian whites went "home"---this scenario would have a bunch of them staying around the way they did in the Thirteen Colonies) to join the rebellion? Interestingly Jack Linthincum put this comment on the bulletin board about this story - That's swapping meet counters, the Bahamas, East and West Florida, Louisiana, Cuba all tokens in the game of Empire.

Eric Lipps commented on 2010-07-08 17:22:08 ~ If, with Georgia absent and friendly to Britain, the twelve United States won their independence, I foresee friction between Georgia and the USA and, quite likely, the forcible annexation of the "independent provice" at some point--perhaps after the War of 1812. Any land graps by the "Province" would then be absorbed as well. However, if Georgia were still independent and hostile as of 1803, the Louisiana Purchase might indeed have been impeded, which invites speculation as to what would have happened to the territory involved, which included far more than the present state of Louisiana.