Which he didn't.
How the Future of India and USA, was determined by the inability of the Austrian Kings Joseph I and Charles VI, to produce male heirs..
When Joseph 1, died of smallpox in 1711, he had two daughters but no son. As a result, his brother Charles VI, succeeded him on the throne
Which he didn't.
Which was pretty sad for thhe daughters of his elder brother, Joseph, who he disinherited
Things came to head in 1740, when Charles VI died and Maria Theresa became the Empress of Austria.
Britain, Dutch and Russia, sided with Maria Theresa.
This resulted in an 8 year war called the war of Austrian Succession, in which 3,00,000 died
This is where Things begin to get interesting.
The country was India.
First they started supporting local rulers against each other.
Then they dropped their pretence.
Unfortunately for the French, they were annihilated.
British captured their Capital Pondicherry and Chandranagar in Bengal and French were effectively booted out of India.
That opportunity came in 1777. In the United States of America.
French went all in on that one. So much so, that 75% of the US army's gunpowder, was French.
As a result, British went thru a humiliating surrender in Yorktown, and America was born.
Which made the British double down, in their other colony, India.
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