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* ''Literature/TheBartimaeusTrilogy'' is set sometime in an alternate 2000's or so, and the third book mentions offhand that the UsefulNotes/TheAmericanRevolution is only just beginning. Some of the demons are threatened with [[ReassignedToAntarctica "being sent to fight in the Colonies."]]

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-->'''Daphne''': I'm a resident alien here from England - you know, the country that used to own you people!\\
'''Martin''': [[DeadpanSnarker She'll go right to the head of the line now.]]

* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' episode "[[Recap/FuturamaS6E23AllThePresidentsHeads All the Presidents' Heads]]". After Fry accidentally changes history by taking one of the lanterns that was meant to signal Paul Revere, [[NewNeoCity New New York]] is full of London Underground signs and red double decker [[HoverCar hoverbuses]], symbols of "Western Britannia" include the Tyranny Bell and Dunkin Crumpets, and everyone wears random period outfits from the Elizabethan to the Victorian age, and speaks with really bad [[UsefulNotes/BritishAccents Cockney accents]]. (FridgeLogic: Even [[DreadlockRasta Hermes]], who's from a [[{{UsefulNotes/Jamaica}} Commonwealth country]] anyway.)

* ''Series/{{Frasier}}'': Invoked in "[[Recap/FrasierS05E05The1000thShow The 1000th Show]]" when a frustrated Daphne is trying to renew her passport over the phone:

* ''Series/{{Frasier}}'': Invoked when a frustrated Daphne is trying to renew her passport over the phone:

* In the furry series ''Literature/TheTowerAndTheFox'', the American Revolution has failed due to the British use of sorcery, but UsefulNotes/JohnQuincyAdams and his fellows are still talking revolution in the 1800s. The vulpine protagonist is loyal to the British Empire--until he travels to London and discovers how his own kind are treated there in the second book. [[spoiler:In the third book he joins the new Revolution.]]

* [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] in [[http://www.deviantart.com/upvoteanthology/art/Loyalist-America-545055538 this map]], British North America is given more representation in the British parliament, sowing loyalty and averting the American Revolution. However, they still obtain Dominion status in 1861 and eventually independence in 1923.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' had "Twistory", which eventually got banned from airing on {{Creator/Nickelodeon}} as it was considered to take the anti-British sentiment a bit too far. Timmy wishes the founding fathers to appear in his tree house to help him with a history report. Their removal from history, however, turns the US back into a British colony. Everyone gets [[BritishTeeth bad teeth]], all the houses of Dimmsdale turn into tudor thatched room cottages (despite construction being very past that point by 1772 in the UK) and there is no electricity due to Creator/BenjaminFranklin never discovering it -- completely in ignorance of the discoveries in the fields of electromagnetism by the Englishman Michael Faraday. Timmy then has to go back in time to stop Benedict Arnold from convincing the revolutionaries to surrender.

* ''VideoGame/RiseOfNations: Thrones & Patriots'': In the "New Wold" campaign, the players can deviate from history quite heavily, including the European colonial powers (especially Britain) keeping the United States from gaining independence.

The colonists will often retain stereotypically British traits, such as accents[[note]]And to make sure it's recognizably "British" to audiences everywhere, it'll be [[IAmVeryBritish the Queen's English]] and not any of the dozens of other UsefulNotes/BritishAccents.[[/note]], even though those traits were not actually affected by the war, but by distance, and, in many cases, were already somewhat established by the time the war occurred. This may be done to help remind the viewer that things are different in this timeline, or it may simply be RuleOfFunny.

* In the furry series ''Literature/TheTowerAndTheFox'', the American Revolution has failed due to the British use of sorcery, but UsefulNotes/JohnQuincyAdams and his fellows are still talking revolution in the 1800s. The vulpine protagonist is loyal to the British Empire--until he travels to London and discovers how his own kind are treated there in the second book. [[spoiler: In the third book he joins the new Revolution.]]

* ''Series/{{Sliders}}'': "Prince of Wails" had the sliders arrive in an AlternateUniverse where America was under British control and UsefulNotes/GeorgeWashington had been executed as a traitor. The sliders then tell Prince Harold, the heir to the British throne, after rescuing him that "Why don't you give democracy a go?" as though he should never have heard of it... despite the United Kingdom (and its predecessor states) having been a Constitutional Monarchy and ''Parliamentary Democracy'' since 1688 so he'd know what democracy is.

* Played with in ''Literature/LookToTheWest'', in which the point of divergence is George II sending his son Frederick to America. Due to his influence, the Empire of North America becomes the dominant partner in the Hanoverian holdings, to the point that [[spoiler: at the end of the Pandoric War, ''Britain'' declares independence]].

* Happens in ''ComicBook/{{Lilith}}'' due [[TheButterflyEffect Lilith's interference with the Battle of Sekigahara causing the death of Tokugawa Ieiasu and the rise of the Toyotomi Shogunate]]: the Ishida Shogunate led a new and successful invasion of Korea, forcing the Joseon Dynasty in exile with what remained of their forces and trying to gain British support to retake their country, and as part of that their Turtle Ships were lying in ambush on the Delaware River and intercepted George Washington's army during their crossing, causing the collapse of the revolutionaries. The result was a world where the British Empire controls the continent to the Rocky Mountains and Japan controls the West Coast, with them fighting on opposite sides during the Great War (fought in the 1930s after a close call in 1914 and the collapse of Austria-Hungary and its absorption into Germany), a war that ended when the Germans dropped a Japanese nuke on London.

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* In ''[[{{Literature/Animorphs}} Megamorphs #3: Elfangor's Secret]]'', the villain Visser Four [[TimeTravel travels back in time]] to alter various points of human history to make Earth of the present easier to conquer. One of these changes is warning the Hessians of [[UsefulNotes/GeorgeWashington Washington's]] approach, allowing them to ambush the Americans as they cross the Delaware and thus prevent the United States from being founded. However, there's no mention of this at the DownerBeginning, likely because another of the Visser's changes was ensuring Nelson's defeat at Trafalgar.

* In the ''Literature/LordDarcy'' series, history diverged around 1199: the Anglo-French Empire is still ruled by a descendant of UsefulNotes/RichardTheLionHeart, and controls most of western Europe as well as America.
* ''Literature/TheTalesOfAlvinMaker'' splits the difference, with portions of colonial America splitting away as a reduced United States, another portion remaining a colony of a republican England where the Restoration never occurred, and a third part being claimed by the exiled [[UsefulNotes/TheHouseOfStuart House of Stuart]].
* ''Tunnel Through the Deeps'' is a book by Creator/HarryHarrison in which, due to the fact it was John Cabot, not UsefulNotes/ChristopherColumbus, who discovered North America, Spain was also never unified and unable to fund Columbus. This lead to a scenario where the revolutionary war was lost and UsefulNotes/GeorgeWashington was shot as a traitor. The main character is a descendant of Washington who feels tarred by his family's bad reputation whilst working on a transatlantic tunnel between the British Isles and the Northern American colonies. [[spoiler:In the end, it's implied that there is growing sentiment among the colonies to peacefully secede from the Empire, with some suggestions that Washington should be the first president (even though he's an engineer, not a politician)]].
* ''Literature/TheTwoGeorges'' takes place in an alternate timeline where UsefulNotes/GeorgeWashington and [[UsefulNotes/TheHouseOfHanover King George III]] were able to negotiate a peaceful settlement to the problems between Britain and the colonies. In the 20th century, the North American Union consists of most of North America and is a vital part of the British Empire. The plot of the book concerns the theft of the titular "The Two Georges", a famous painting commemorating George Washington meeting with King George. The painting is held for ransom by the Sons Of Liberty, a racist, terrorist organization seeking independence for the North American Union from Britain.
* In ''The Year of the Hangman'', UsefulNotes/TheAmericanRevolution was swiftly crushed in 1777. The rebellion has thus gone underground, revolting against the British in more covert ways than open war. The story ends on an ambiguous note, as the British protagonist has decided to join the rebellion, but much of its leadership like Creator/BenjaminFranklin and UsefulNotes/GeorgeWashington are now dead.
* In Creator/SPSomtow's ''The Aquiliad'', the Roman Empire didn't fall, discovered steam power, and eventually came across the Atlantic to conquer the Americas. The protagonist (Aquila, which is Latin for "Eagle") is a member of the Lakotii tribe (what we would call the Lakota Sioux), and a member of the Senate.
* While it's a minor plot point, in the alternate world of ''Literature/SeekersOfTheSky'', [[TheEmpire the State]] (successor to the Roman Empire) controls much of Europe either directly or through puppet regimes. The State also has colonies in the Americas, which occasionally clash with the dominant Aztec Empire.
* In the ''Literature/NewAmsterdamBooks'' by Elizabeth Bear, magic has greatly restricted the expansion of the American colonies, as a result of which, they never even tried to become independent.

* In the furry series ''Literature/TheTowerAndTheFox'', the American Revolution has failed due to the British use of sorcery, but UsefulNotes/JohnQuincyAdams and his fellows are still talking revolution in the 1800s. The vulpine protagonist is loyal to the British Empire--until he travels to London and discovers how his own kind are treated there in the second book. [[spoiler: In the third book he joins the new Revolution.]]
* In ''Literature/{{Twig}}'', sometime in the mid 1800s the British empire retook the US using [[MadScience biologically engineered warbeasts, reanimated corpse-soldiers, and industrially manufactured plagues and poisons]]. By the start of the story in the 1920s the US is under the control of the "Crown Empire" and nearly all of its cities have been renamed to be more British, with the exception of a few; particularly, New York was reverted to its old name of New Amsterdam, even though that's considerably ''less'' British.

* If you're playing as Britain in ''VideoGame/EmpireTotalWar'', you'll be wanting to make this happen.

* In one ''WesternAnimation/BigGuyAndRustyTheBoyRobot'' episode, a time jump results in the [[HumongousMecha Big Guy suit]] ending up in the hands of the British during the American Revolution, who figure out how to use it. Naturally, they handily win the war, and the colonies remain British with "Iron Jack" praised as being instrumental in putting down the rebellion. The problem? In the primary timeline, Big Guy was the only reason an AlienInvasion failed. In this timeline, it succeeded, with humans being slaves of the invaders. A second trip back in time is required to recover the suit and put history back on track.