american intervention in French Revolutionary wars

was reading on wikipedia and came across about how the American public were willing to help the French people fighting for equality in their republic against the the other Europeans but the government was set against it, but if Washington caved in too public demands and intervened n the war?
 
The only possible action the US could do would be to attack Canada. It has no way of sending any troops to Europe. There might be privateers that would raid British and Spanish ships, but that would have only a neglible impact.

In return, the US economy would suffer badly without trade with Britain and the Royal Navy likely disrupting fishing. However, it would spur some earlier industrial development, but not by much. The British were not heavily involved in the land fighting in the early part of the War of the First Coalition, and they could likely send an army on a punitive expedition against the US

I think the war would quickly become unpopular because American victories would not be big. The US would quickly learn how difficult it would be to fight Britain essentially alone. The US is likely to gain little in any peace treaty, although France would receive any of the spoils it won in Europe.

One possible fallout is that the Jeffersonian pro-French policy would be repudiated in the next elections, and that the Federalists end up becoming the dominant party due to their foreign policy of not becoming involved in European wars. There will be no War of 1812, and thus no rise of Andrew Jackson.

If history in Europe develops as normal, then the US might still be able to purchase Louisiana from France. If not, it is possible that the history of the US will eventually involve a war with Spain or a successor state for lands across the Mississippi, perhaps over a dispute with trade on the river down to New Orleans.
 
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