User blog comment:Octivian Marius/3 ideas/@comment-32656-20130426005940/@comment-3218619-20130501004649

Are you kidding me? The northern "colonies"? By the mid 1800s the United States was a well-established nation that had shown that it stood up there with the major European powers - colonizing it again would have been impossible. The North's industrial capability and population was so much greater than the South that there was absolutely no way the South could have won. Take a look at both Hitler and Napoleon's invasion of Russia. A larger population and industry eventually defeated a much better trained, fed, and equipped army. And yes, as LG said, if Lincoln was assassinated, the cries of vengeance would mean the war would end even more poorly for the South. And the British/French involvement in the Civil War is greatly exaggerated. The second one would never have happened. A merged merchant republic would be very bad for trade for them back then. No way in hell that's happening. No idea what you mean by the third.