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Dear /his/, wouldn't it have been wonderful if Stadtholder William III of Holland, Zeeland, Utrecht, Gelderland and Overijssel, King of England, Ireland and Scotland and his wife, Mary II, had had children? The world would have seen an Anglo-Dutch empire capable of ruling Europe and the world as a whole better than the English could on their own. With the combined fleets of the Netherlands and Britain and the colonial ventures of both these superpowers there would not have been anything to stop the Anglo-Dutch Empire from ruling the world until eternity. The USA would, perhaps, not have left the Empire, and the control of the English Channel would've left France severely diminished. There is no way Napoleon could've gained so large an empire with the Anglo-Dutch standing in his way.
Why is this alternate history never discussed? It almost happened and would've been scary as all hell, yet everyone seems to have forgotten about it.
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Cool story bro!
Yeah that would be neat.
Instead of Holland going into collapse during the 1700s (being pushed around by France, Prussia and Austria) they would have been like a Scotland or Wales but with a massive center of economic power.
tl;dr IRL Amsterdam lost money war to London
tl;dr ALT HIS Amsterdam becomes sister city and economic powerhouse along with London
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>>1420276
Dutch people are faggots.
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Shameless bump
Even on /his/ people don't want to talk about it.
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God i wish that were me
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bamp
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>>1420276
England having clay in Mainland Europe would have changed the Politics of Europe completely
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Why didn't he have any? He married Mary in 1677 so he had plenty of time. Makes me wonder why Charles II had no legitimate ones either considering his uh, appetite.
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>>1422703
Well William was apparently a homosexual, but still he should've done his duty.
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The countries would have seperated at one point, the cultures are just too different
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