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You're on here about an English need and inevitability to push south into New England and New York and the east coast generally. But if the British are settling up in Canada upriver via the St. Lawrence, what if the path of lesser resistance isn't French colonies in OTL New England and York...

Yes precisely. More precisely and accurately than I said it.

agreed

I would ask you what your contention is about what exactly France can or cannot do? Are you saying you find it difficult to believe France could establish a leading position in Atlantic coast colonies in the 1520s-1540s, and difficult to imagine them controlling the east coast from Cape Fear to...

Our story begins in the reign of England's Henry VII, when he patronizes Italian navigator Zuan Caboto's attempt to cross the Atlantic at the northern latitudes to find the Far East. Caboto, or John Cabot's, 2nd attempt at sailing west in 1497 succeeds and lands at a New Found Land, or Terranova...