Holy Alliance against United States

What if the conservative Restauration powers after the Napoleonic Wars decided to fight the idea of Liberalism, Democracy and Rebublicanism even in North America ( they need to be more radical and united). Even though the Thirteen Colonies had been helped by Englands enemies in the ARW, they didn' t support the ideal of democracy/Rebublicanism itself. A Spanish ambassador in the 1780 wrote that the backing of the revolutionaries could have been a mistake, he forsaw the independent thirteen colonies would eventually becoming a ,giant' and a threat with all the land to explore and to claim. What if the conservative monarchies of Europe and England tried to crackdown not only on liberalism in Europe ( like the post-Napoleon Bourbon French war against Spanish liberals for example) and Latin American independence movements but also try to conquer North America and replacing the young democracy of the United States ? Maybe they see them as an inspiration fountain for liberal ideas in their own sphere of interest and want to eradicate the only existing example of a liberal republic.
 
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I doubt it very much.

At the end of the Napoleonic Wars, Europe will be tired and exhausted, and wanted to try (And fail) to go back to the way things was. America is isolated and have no interested in Europe.

It would just cost too much and they have far more to gain from trade with the USA then a war. Britain itself has zero interest in spending money to take land full of rebellious people, more so with the end of the Napoleonic Wars.
 
What if the Restauration powers after the Napoleonic Wars decided to fight the idea of Liberalism, Democracy and Rebublicanism even in North America ( they need to be more radical and united). Even though the Thirteen Colonies had been helped by Englands enemies in the ARW, they didn' t support the ideal of democracy/Rebublicanism itself. A Spanish ambassador in the 1780 wrote that the backing of the revolutionaries could have been a mistake, he forsaw the independent thirteen colonies would eventually becoming a ,giant' and a threat with all the land to explore and to claim. What if the conservative monarchies of Europe and England tried to crackdown not only on liberalism in Europe ( like the post-Napoleon Bourbon French war against Spanish liberals for example) and Latin American independence movements but also try to conquer North America and replacing the young democracy of the United States ? Maybe they see them as an inspiration fountain for liberal ideas in their own spheres of interest and want to eradicate the only existing example of a liberal republic.

This would go against the traditional friendly Russian policy toward the US established by Catherine II and continued by Alexander I. In OTL the Holy Alliance was considering intervention into the Latin America and Russia several times tried to get the United States to join. During the American Revolution the Brits asked Catherine for help with the troops 3 times (last time they did not even ask for the troops but just for convincing the French to get out with Minorca being offered as a payment for the services rendered) and had been refused: Catherine maintained neutrality (friendly to the rebels).

In practical terms conquering North America meant massive presence of the European troops transported by the British ships and dying for the British interests (Britain being clearly the only participant ending up with the territorial acquisitions). The heads of the Holy Alliance were not that idiotic.
 
This needs a POD during the Napoleonic Wars, where the USA openly sides with the French, in order to shift the Russians away from their pro-USA views. It also needs the Holy Alliance to straight up bribe Britain to transport their troops, because none of them had the merchant marine to pull it off, but at this point none of them have anything the British are going to be overly interested in.

The British aren't stupid; they know if they try to occupy the United State, then they'll be facing endless insurrections and revolts until one of them finally succeeds, but that's the only possible bribe that the Holy Alliance can offer.
 
This needs a POD during the Napoleonic Wars, where the USA openly sides with the French, in order to shift the Russians away from their pro-USA views. It also needs the Holy Alliance to straight up bribe Britain to transport their troops, because none of them had the merchant marine to pull it off, but at this point none of them have anything the British are going to be overly interested in.

IMO, logical scenario would be other way around: Britain is trying to bribe the continental powers into participating in a renewed British attempt to subdue the former colonies. The obvious question is why any of the continental powers would agree to such a schema: none of them had any vested interest in the area except Russia and Russia at that time did not have any territorial disputes with the US even within a context of the Russian-American Company (even if later there were some issues with the limitations of the American fur trade). American republicanism did not prevent close diplomatic relations: 1st American consul arrived to St-Petersburg in 1803, the formal relations had been established in 1807 and in 1809 - 1810 there was exchange of the ministers (John Quincy Adams became the first U.S. Minister to Russia). So Alexander suddenly changing course 180 degrees on the ideological grounds would be more than a little bit strange.
 
IMO, logical scenario would be other way around: Britain is trying to bribe the continental powers into participating in a renewed British attempt to subdue the former colonies. The obvious question is why any of the continental powers would agree to such a schema: none of them had any vested interest in the area except Russia and Russia at that time did not have any territorial disputes with the US even within a context of the Russian-American Company (even if later there were some issues with the limitations of the American fur trade). American republicanism did not prevent close diplomatic relations: 1st American consul arrived to St-Petersburg in 1803, the formal relations had been established in 1807 and in 1809 - 1810 there was exchange of the ministers (John Quincy Adams became the first U.S. Minister to Russia). So Alexander suddenly changing course 180 degrees on the ideological grounds would be more than a little bit strange.

The population of the United States is somewhere north of seven million, while Great Britain has somewhere north of twelve million. Given the sheer size of the American continent, and the lack of a technological advantage, Britain simply does not have the numbers to conquer and hold the USA, and I'm sure they all knew it - once independence was secured and the loyalists largely fled, the new nation wasn't going anywhere.
 
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