Both yes and no. I do not believe that British aspirations to establish a true empire could have succeeded. The colonies had been moving toward independence for many years and were unwilling to accept the kind of imperial structure and dependency that the British government attempted to establish at the end of the Seven Years' War, especially since there was no credible military threat on the North American continent to force them to rely on British arms. On the other hand, I could readily imagine a situation, similar to the dominion ship, in which Americans would have remained a part of the empire. If such an arrangement had been given in the early months of the war, I believe most Americans would have enthusiastically embraced it.