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ikt@aussie.zone to Political Humor@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months ago

Things could have gone so very differently

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Things could have gone so very differently

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ikt@aussie.zone to Political Humor@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months ago
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    3 months ago

    2 components:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana_Purchase

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France_in_the_American_Revolutionary_War

    • brendansimms@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      also, the Seven Years’ War

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      3 months ago

      I get the involvement of France there, but don’t see how either would lead to the US speaking French. I could see a Canada situation with the purchase, as there would be more French speakers. But even there, UK had no involvement with that, as it was Napoleon’s focus on Europe that led him to sell the land to the US, so he could continue his conquests. The Revolutionary War wouldn’t have led to speaking French regardless of the outcome. UK wins, we’re still speaking English. We did win, and did not lead to us speaking French.

      Aside from that, having not done a google, is that something the King actually said?

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        Well, you wouldn’t be speaking English if there was no England to create the language.

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          You wouldn’t be speaking if there wasn’t language. Checkmate, atheists.

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        3 months ago

        You might need to go back to the Seven Years War (AKA, The French and Indian War).

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