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Constantinople seems like the more reasonable decision.

Ooh, this coudl be likely. Could we perhaps see an abolition of the Janissary Corps and a proper modernization of the Ottoman armies 25 years early? How might that play not, and not just for Frankish Bonaparte commanding them, but I mean for Turkish military history for the rest of the century in their numerous wars against Russia, and also their attempts to put down various Balkan revolts?
 
Ooh, this coudl be likely. Could we perhaps see an abolition of the Janissary Corps and a proper modernization of the Ottoman armies 25 years early? How might that play not, and not just for Frankish Bonaparte commanding them, but I mean for Turkish military history for the rest of the century in their numerous wars against Russia, and also their attempts to put down various Balkan revolts?

Bey Napolyon Pasha, reformer of the Ottoman Empire and grand vizier ? Maybe he would be like a French Mehmet Ali Pasha.
 
A Turkish Napoleon is a very interesting start for a TL. :D

I've always been curious about Turkish history at this point. There was alot of interesting stuff that happened before the revolutionary and napoleonic wars, and lots of interesting that happened afterwards, but I've never been able to find a good English history of what was happening in the Ottoman Empire during the European conflagrations, other than the whole Egypt thing...

I am quite interested to see what would happen to France in such a TL. I always got the impression that revolutionary France wasn't short of talented leaders, and that the Napoleonic wars were far from inevitable. Could lead to a more stable and longer lived first republic...

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