I've always curious and somewhat fascinated of the british empire's actions/activities during the age of imperialism/colonialism, especially during the its rebellions and wars on it's belt.
from the american revolutionary war and its small "skirmish" in 1812 (considering napoleon and his empire building in europe), the rebellions in india and wars for harmfull drugs in china (opium wars) and especially the empire's conquest in africa...
it is there that the british empire have invent what we would call one of the most horrific and prolific war crimes in modern era, the concentration camps, used both to the native tribes like the zulus and the boers to great effect (granted the u.s is exterminating and displacing western native american tribes into reservations and by lesser extent the rest of the americas), while leopold the ll's hand-chop quota policy was the most infamous in its time, the camps that the british had set up are to me in my understanding of the british imperial colonial policy are the most "effective", influential and the most underscored legacies of the empire, (same thing to the "management" of the irish potato famine) and in the modern era they try to downplay, whitewash and even gaslight some of its atrocities by focusing on their goodwill and achievements like their banning of the atlantic slave trade...
and it is only that when the nazis had an "ingenious" idea to take the concept of the concentration camps set up by the british and put it further with "improvements" for their "final solution" of their jewish/undesirables problem...
So my question and what if scenario here is that what if the british empire use the concept of the concentration camps used in our timeline to the zulus and boers, to the american patriots/yankees by way of order and "inspiration" from king george lll or parliament itself to the american revolutionaries, both white, free/slave black and including the native tribes in the iroqouis confederation (or maybe not considering some of the tribes there have some pro-british sympathies) and excluding their loyalists to break american morale.
how would the continental congress, army and their civilian population would react to this escalation of the war?
or how would the american government, canadian congress and military/people, slaves and slaveowners and native tribes during 1812 (if its feasible or not during the napoleonic wars, hell how would napoleon take advantage of this) react to the british empire resorting to camps during the war of 1812?
what butterflies would have an effect on this tl?
what cultural shifts would happen in this version of the u.s, rest of the americas, european empires and its colonies and the rest of the world like in asia, africa and the middle east in general.
(like maybe in the movie the patriot with the british commander's actions but made worse, plus the memes)
alt-revolutionary war concentration camps victim: we're staving here to death, you limey bastards!!!
british empire :
p.s i got inspired by this idea when i was rereading okmangezz's asb tl, the american dream, in the anglo-american war and in its chapters where the british, waning spanish and rump state french bourbon dynasty empires decides to set up the camps in imperial alliance occupation of the american southern states in reaction to the fierce american civilian resistance...
from the american revolutionary war and its small "skirmish" in 1812 (considering napoleon and his empire building in europe), the rebellions in india and wars for harmfull drugs in china (opium wars) and especially the empire's conquest in africa...
it is there that the british empire have invent what we would call one of the most horrific and prolific war crimes in modern era, the concentration camps, used both to the native tribes like the zulus and the boers to great effect (granted the u.s is exterminating and displacing western native american tribes into reservations and by lesser extent the rest of the americas), while leopold the ll's hand-chop quota policy was the most infamous in its time, the camps that the british had set up are to me in my understanding of the british imperial colonial policy are the most "effective", influential and the most underscored legacies of the empire, (same thing to the "management" of the irish potato famine) and in the modern era they try to downplay, whitewash and even gaslight some of its atrocities by focusing on their goodwill and achievements like their banning of the atlantic slave trade...
and it is only that when the nazis had an "ingenious" idea to take the concept of the concentration camps set up by the british and put it further with "improvements" for their "final solution" of their jewish/undesirables problem...
So my question and what if scenario here is that what if the british empire use the concept of the concentration camps used in our timeline to the zulus and boers, to the american patriots/yankees by way of order and "inspiration" from king george lll or parliament itself to the american revolutionaries, both white, free/slave black and including the native tribes in the iroqouis confederation (or maybe not considering some of the tribes there have some pro-british sympathies) and excluding their loyalists to break american morale.
how would the continental congress, army and their civilian population would react to this escalation of the war?
or how would the american government, canadian congress and military/people, slaves and slaveowners and native tribes during 1812 (if its feasible or not during the napoleonic wars, hell how would napoleon take advantage of this) react to the british empire resorting to camps during the war of 1812?
what butterflies would have an effect on this tl?
what cultural shifts would happen in this version of the u.s, rest of the americas, european empires and its colonies and the rest of the world like in asia, africa and the middle east in general.
(like maybe in the movie the patriot with the british commander's actions but made worse, plus the memes)
alt-revolutionary war concentration camps victim: we're staving here to death, you limey bastards!!!
british empire :
p.s i got inspired by this idea when i was rereading okmangezz's asb tl, the american dream, in the anglo-american war and in its chapters where the british, waning spanish and rump state french bourbon dynasty empires decides to set up the camps in imperial alliance occupation of the american southern states in reaction to the fierce american civilian resistance...
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