The United States we celebrate at 250 is only one of many possible Americas

In the predawn hours of Dec. 31, 1775, American soldiers advanced through a blizzard toward the old stone walls of Quebec City. Their boots slipped on ice. Wet gunpowder jammed their muskets. The city’s defenders pushed them back with withering cannon fire. By the time the sun rose, hundreds of Americans were dead, wounded, or captured. The assault had collapsed, and Canada remained in British hands.A few months later, the Americans ended their invasion of Canada. The United States declared its independence in July with 13 states, not 14. Had the invasion succeeded, America’s map would look very different today. The country would have begun its life as a bilingual nation and soon become an Arctic power.

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