DBWI What if the French had not burned down Washington DC?

cashew

Banned
August 24, 1814 the date is embedded in the American psyche when French troops, fresh from their victory in Russia burned and looted Washington DC torching the White House as a consequence. This date marks the only time a foreign army has ever occupied the American capital since winning its independence from Britain.
Napoleon's raid on Washington was a humiliating blow to the Americans. John Armstrong Jr was dismissed as Secretaty of War as a result.
What were the reasons why Napoleon decided to go to war against the Americans? Could this pointless war have been averted?
 
With all due respect to this, the French have to put together an expeditionary force and get it past the Royal Navy before it can even get to America. Given that the British could consider the reports that it is to attack the USA as a cover story for a raid on Ireland in order to trigger a rebellion they are going to be damned sure they take it out.
 
With all due respect to this, the French have to put together an expeditionary force and get it past the Royal Navy before it can even get to America. Given that the British could consider the reports that it is to attack the USA as a cover story for a raid on Ireland in order to trigger a rebellion they are going to be damned sure they take it out.
OOC: This is an DBWI Double Back What If, examining and AH scenario from their perspective, in this one France didn't lose their Canadian colonies, which America invades in 1812.
 

Keenir

Banned
August 24, 1814 the date is embedded in the American psyche when French troops, fresh from their victory in Russia burned and looted Washington DC torching the White House as a consequence.

What were the reasons why Napoleon decided to go to war against the Americans? Could this pointless war have been averted?

it could have....if we had been wise enough to see beyond our irrational hatreds, and asked the Portugese and British to help us against the French. but, as we were too prideful and arrogant, we fell alone.
 

cashew

Banned
OOC: This is an DBWI Double Back What If, examining and AH scenario from their perspective, in this one France didn't lose their Canadian colonies, which America invades in 1812.

Thank you.
Also, a scenario when England was defeated possibly invaded early in the Napoleonic Wars.
 

cashew

Banned
To be clear a sizeable portion of those troops that burned down Washington were Bavarians, who second only to the much hated earlier British Hessians were widely hated by the Americans.
 
To be clear a sizeable portion of those troops that burned down Washington were Bavarians, who second only to the much hated earlier British Hessians were widely hated by the Americans.
Which is why we insisted in the Peace of Hofburg, that Lower Bavaria be absorbed by Austria.
 
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