http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=237335
I tried the no protectorates with France and on the second turn I got Lousiana.
What I want to test out now is try the other file protectorates forever, and play as the 13 colonies, since Britain is no longer required to "annex" them, maybe it's possible to play them without locking up X turns into the game.
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