Story Idea Thread: post your ideas here!

  Well according to some reports it nearly happened.  Britain gave back a number of its gains after the success of the 7 Years War and there was a discussion over whether to return Canada to France or one of the French Caribbean Islands, checking Wiki it was Guadeloupe.  The latter was much smaller but very wealth because of the sugar produced from the plantations there and some argued for retaining it instead of Canada. 

  I have seen it suggested that if that had happened, then its likely to at least delay the American revolution.  If there is a continuing French presence in N America then the colonists are more likely to be willing to pay something to support their defence.  With a stronger loyalist presence and a clear French threat you could see any revolutionary force possibly being defeated in the early days.  How things would go after that I don't know.

  If French Canada survived until a French revolution then it might possibly last a lot longer.  It was socially very conservative and dominated by the clerics so it could well stay loyal to the Bourbon dynasty.  In which case, while it might come under British protection, especially if/when the republican forces become powerful.  Then quite probably returning to French rule when the Bourbons are returned.

  This is likely to be a truncated Canada.  Its likely to lose its southern territories, south of the Great Lakes, either in 1763 or ~1815 as British colonies would probably have moved into the region in strength, plus the Hudson's Bay Company will dominate the prairies and your likely to have British settlement of the British Columbia region.  As such French Canada is likely to be largely the Quebec region and most/all of OTL Ontario plus probably parts of what's now the Maritime provinces without the expulsion of the Acadians and settlement of loyalists with a defeated American revolution.

  Yes there are relatively few British troops, most without combat experience, no or virtually no Americans with zero combat experience in their case, very limited amphibious facilities or experience, a still powerful Luftwaffe and Britain still desperately fighting to secure control of the Atlantic - especially since vital air and naval forces would be switched from that battle to support the landings.  The historically planned Operation_Sledgehammer was almost certainly to be a total disaster.  It might even win the war for the Nazis as Britain would be in a bad position after such a defeat on top of everything else and the Soviets, if in such a disastrous position is then likely to collapse with less support available in 1943 onwards.

  Such a landing would have to be in N France and probably in the Breton peninsula as that would be the only location there would be a chance of holding on during the winter if somehow a secure lodgement was achieved.  Going into S France would leave the landings very exposed as forces operating from Italy as well as S France could attack the supporting forces and supply line.  You could lose a hell of a lot of ships there, both military and merchant as well as the manpower and any landed forces as their isolated and starved out.

  Do we have anything like the forces to do this now, especially at sea?  Might well get assistance from some of the other Caribbean states that feel threatened by the Venezuelan action but don't think the fleet is anything like powerful enough to support opposed landings to liberate Guyana.

  Now that would be interesting I agree.