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I'm pretty certain this has been done before, as it seems a fairly obvious idea, but offhand I can't think of any timelines dealing with it.
OTL, Carlo Buonaparte was a lawyer and a minor leader in the Corsican Republic that wrested control of the island from Genoa in the 1750s, led by Pasquale Paoli. When the French moved in and conquered Corsica, Buonaparte decided to switch sides. His son Napoleone joined the French Army, and the rest is history.
In my Look to the West timeline, I have Carlo Buonaparte a bit more emotionally invested in the Republic, and he flees to Britain along with several other republican leaders - thus leading to Napoleon joining the Royal Navy.
However, what if instead he went to the American colonies (as they still were back then) and was an influence on the American Revolution, given his republican background? (The example of the Corsican Republic was an influence on the Americans even in OTL). But, of course, the part we're most interested in is what Napoleon would do. He was born in 1769, so if Buonaparte is already in America by then (and we do not use a chaos theory approach, so it's still ~Napoleon) he will be a natural-born American citizen, presumably able to run for president.
Ignoring the butterflies in Europe, I could see Napoleon as being like an earlier Andrew Jackson, only without brakes. The only question is, just what war would he distinguish himself in?
OTL, Carlo Buonaparte was a lawyer and a minor leader in the Corsican Republic that wrested control of the island from Genoa in the 1750s, led by Pasquale Paoli. When the French moved in and conquered Corsica, Buonaparte decided to switch sides. His son Napoleone joined the French Army, and the rest is history.
In my Look to the West timeline, I have Carlo Buonaparte a bit more emotionally invested in the Republic, and he flees to Britain along with several other republican leaders - thus leading to Napoleon joining the Royal Navy.
However, what if instead he went to the American colonies (as they still were back then) and was an influence on the American Revolution, given his republican background? (The example of the Corsican Republic was an influence on the Americans even in OTL). But, of course, the part we're most interested in is what Napoleon would do. He was born in 1769, so if Buonaparte is already in America by then (and we do not use a chaos theory approach, so it's still ~Napoleon) he will be a natural-born American citizen, presumably able to run for president.
Ignoring the butterflies in Europe, I could see Napoleon as being like an earlier Andrew Jackson, only without brakes. The only question is, just what war would he distinguish himself in?