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How different would today be if America was overthrown in a Napoleon-esque coup d'etat, around the early days of the republic? An unpopular government under an unpopular President does something crazy and a general seizes DC (or Philly) and declares himself First Consul, ala Napoleon. How would this happen? Could this even happen? Who would be the Napoleon in this scenario? Hell, would the US even survive? Any early state is rather fragile, so I was just thinking about this while reading up on Napoleon.
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