AHC: Napoleon Exile State in Louisiana

Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to make it so Napoleon somehow is forced from France but retains a strong enough military/population to hold onto power in Louisiana. Bonus points if you can get him to control the French colonies in the Caribbean and beyond.

No restrictions on POD.
 

Benevolent

Banned
He'd have to win the Haitian Revolution to move to Louisiana and try and make it work.

Isn't this ASB territory though?
 
He'd have to win the Haitian Revolution to move to Louisiana and try and make it work.

Isn't this ASB territory though?

I don't think its ASB with a right set of PODs, maybe before he can become Emperor, he is placed in control of Haiti, crushes the rebellion, and when Spain gives Louisiana to France, he is given control of the military there, possibly as a Governor, when war breaks out in Europe, French refugees flee to Louisiana, and he manages to break the territory into an autonomous zone and eventually independent.
 

Benevolent

Banned
I don't think its ASB with a right set of PODs, maybe before he can become Emperor, he is placed in control of Haiti, crushes the rebellion, and when Spain gives Louisiana to France, he is given control of the military there, possibly as a Governor, when war breaks out in Europe, French refugees flee to Louisiana, and he manages to break the territory into an autonomous zone and eventually independent.
But the likelihood of the United States not succeeding in sacking this independent Louisiana and even expanding beyond the Caribbean?
 
Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to make it so Napoleon somehow is forced from France but retains a strong enough military/population to hold onto power in Louisiana. Bonus points if you can get him to control the French colonies in the Caribbean and beyond.

No restrictions on POD.

I think I saw a scenario like this on a Map thread few days ago...
 
Nap as ruler of Haiti:

Nap was the driving force (as French ruler) behind regaining Louisiana. He was the driving force behind expansion (as French ruler) throughout Europe, which made it possible for him to offer up Parma in exchange for LA. He was the driving force behind unifying France and emerging from the revolutionary years.

Put him in Haiti pre 1800, the entire world history changes. however, assuming France still unifies, and regains LA, and presuming he doesn't die of yellow fever, as soon as he starts getting too uppity (he's not going to be content to merely be a governor taking orders from afar), France simply shuts off supplies, and Nap doesn't have the troops/materials to do much. He can probably hold Haiti, but without continued influx of French troops, the size of his army continuously diminishes. Without French support, he can't expand in LA, and he can't leave Haiti or he loses it. the US and Britain are going to team up to prevent any sort of strong French presence in North America. and besides, Nap's genius was military, and co-opting some of the ideals of the revolution (like the legal code). Not sure there was ever much sign of him as being much of a such a competent domestic ruler that he would be anything out of the ordinary as a guv.
 
Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to make it so Napoleon somehow is forced from France but retains a strong enough military/population to hold onto power in Louisiana. Bonus points if you can get him to control the French colonies in the Caribbean and beyond.

No restrictions on POD.

18th Brumaire is carried out by someone else than Napoleon (Moreau? Carnot?).

New French government (Sieyes and his gang) want to have Napoleon as far as possible due to his popularity among the French people and the blatant unpopularity of the old revolutionaries.

Treaty of San Ildefonso is signed as OTL in 1800, and Napoleon is sent to Louisiana to protect the French colonies against the British. Needing troops, he frees the Haitian slaves* and recruit some of them into his army.

By 1805, he is de facto ruler of an Caribbean Empire.

*OTL he restored slavery in Haiti, but don't forget Napoleon was very, very pragmatic.
 
Not that difficult to get an isolationist President
There's a difference between an isolationist president and one who's going to allow the Mississippi to be in foreign hands if he has the choice. And even if he doesn't, filibusterers will; New Orleans had been on the American wishlist since day one.

And of course, the British/Spanish/etc. won't be willing to just let him sit there either (nor will the restored Bourbons when that happens).

Nor can he free the slaves; they've already been free since 1794 (and in rebellion before that), long before Napoleon was at all prominent. He might be able to recruit some of them as soldiers (he'd basically have to), but that's not going to give him an offensive force. And Louveture is already in Haiti, and not the sort to willingly share power; trying to oust him is not going to be easy even for Napoleon. And we'll ignore the American reaction to a French splinter state with armed former slaves making up its army in Louisiana.
 
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