AH CHALLENGE: USA fighting with the British during the Napoleonic Wars

As it says on the tin. What can we do to have a lasting contribution of the United States to the Napoleonic wars. I would assume an increased Quasi-war and XYZ affair to build this up. Perhaps we need to butterfly away Jeffersons Presidency.

EDIT: Okay, Clarification Fighting alongside the British!
 
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No I got what he meant. He meant WITH the British. As in a member of the coalition. And no. I cant really think of any. Poorly worded title.
 

Anaxagoras

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Just have the Louisiana Purchase fall through (as very nearly happened IOTL). Jefferson himself said: "The day French troops land in New Orleans, we shall have to marry ourselves to the British fleet and nation."
 
No Louisiana purchase, combined perhaps with Spain more-or-less willingly joining Napoleon. Chance to take Louisiana and Florida at once.
 
It can happen in the 1802-06 period pretty easily, as Bourbon Spain is still allied to Napoleonic France while Britain isn't hardline against the US.

The Burr Conspiracy epitomizes this period quite well actually. Burr met with British officials to try to get official British backing and financing for his ventures in the Spanish Americas. So a colonial incident between Spain and America is a good way to provoke a conflict where Britain and America are allied.

Once 1807 comes around, Napoleon starts intriguing in the Iberian Peninsula and Britain starts cooling towards the US, so it becomes pretty much impossible.
 
Just have the Louisiana Purchase fall through (as very nearly happened IOTL). Jefferson himself said: "The day French troops land in New Orleans, we shall have to marry ourselves to the British fleet and nation."

That works. I imagine if the U.S. allied to Britain, New Orleans would be our cut of the loot.
 
How would that affect the world?

No War of 1812, for starters. The Hartford Convention, which resulted from that, really hurt the Federalist Party, who were among other things Anglophiles.

In TTL, they'll be going strong for awhile longer than OTL and if the U.S. takes Louisiana from the Franco-Spanish as an ally of Britain, it'll strengthen them politically.

The Federalists favored a more centralized government IIRC, so that might have effects down the line.
 
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