In the 1770s or 1780s, the Bonaparte family immigrates America. Once Napoleon is old enough, he joins the Army, and later enters politics, making it at least as far as President of the United States. Would he be able to make himself Emperor? If so, would the title outlast him?
AHC: President Napoleon Bonaparte
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My reading of French History show that Napoleon never intended to make himself Emperor.
He was a loyal General of the Republic till the Republic collapsed. "I found the Crown of France laying in the Street, and I picked it up and placed it on My head"
I don't doubt that Napoleon could be a American Military hero, and rise to President like Jackson or Grant. But would He go the Military Route.
He gave consideration [otl] in his youth to the Religious Life.
Growing up in the US. Whe can get a Napoleon the Banker, The Farmer, The Sailor, or even Napoleon the Mountain Man. Accompanying Lewis and Clark, Or Carson and Pike.
My reading of French History show that Napoleon never intended to make himself Emperor.
He was a loyal General of the Republic till the Republic collapsed. "I found the Crown of France laying in the Street, and I picked it up and placed it on My head"
I don't doubt that Napoleon could be a American Military hero, and rise to President like Jackson or Grant. But would He go the Military Route.
He gave consideration [otl] in his youth to the Religious Life.
Growing up in the US. Whe can get a Napoleon the Banker, The Farmer, The Sailor, or even Napoleon the Mountain Man. Accompanying Lewis and Clark, Or Carson and Pike.
No Corsican is getting anywhere close to the position of president. Also he was born in 1769. So even if he does end up joining the US Army its also unlikely that he becomes anything but an NCO. Another question why the US? Why not Saint-Domingue or Louisiana? Or the Antilles? And how does he become Emperor of America?
I don't doubt he could be a military hero, but I doubt that the Americans will elect a man with the last name Buonaparte.
Why not? We elected a man with the last name van Buren around the same time Napoleon would be eligible.
The van is a big part of it. Napoleon is Catholic. He comes from a family of Catholics. Van Buren is Protestant New Yorker who's family had been in North America since the Dutch owned New York.
Bonnepart, I just don't see it happening. There is a large difference between American politics and French Revolutionary Politics.
Why would he attack Britain? Who's to say he would be as militarily minded as he was OTL?
The idea of Napoleon becoming a US war hero who enters into politics seems quite intriguing if you ask me. We could have Napoleon running for President in 1828 with Henry Clay as VP nominee on the National Republican ticket (J. Q. Adams having been persuaded that he can't win against Jackson on top of the ticket a second time, seeing many considered his first term in office the result of a corrupt bargain) against the Democrats with Andrew Jackson for POTUS and John C. Caulhoun for Vice President...
Napoleon Bonnepart, President of the United States? A very good idea. But there is a few blockers.
- He is Catholic. This anti-Catholicism can be butterflied away by removing the Quebec Act. So Quebecois would rebel along with the Americans.
- He is Italian. He never was French in his earlier days. So dont count on the Quebecois to vote him because of that. Probably because of religion, will they vote for him.
- He is an recent immigrant, or son of immigrants.
1 and 2 does present problems, I concede that, but let's not forget that Andrew Jackson's parents were also immigrants (Scots-Irish, though, much closer to American culture than Corsican Italian) and he managed to make himself a very popular president in his days.
Fair enough. So, I was thinking, to deal with 1, butterfly away the Quebec Act. Will this work?
Normally the first offense for necromancy is a warning. However, since:
1. You have been here more than long enough to know the rules
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2. You effectively necro'd the thread to SPAM it plugging your own T/L
this is an exceptional case.
It is almost always bead to be an exceptional case. Such is the case here.
You will have plenty of time to work on your T/L in the coming week since you won't be posting here.
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I take it you're using historical inertia, for Napoleon to still exist in a TL whose PoD is before his conception?Since it was already necroed, I'll plug my own timeline, though that has a POD in 1744, and doesn't have a USA, but Bonaparte is an American President still. . .