Napoleon Bonaparte in the American Revolution

He could have asked John Knox, he was a bookseller after all. John Knox was a book-learned general in the Revolutionary War after all, he took Fort Ticonderoga and brought its cannons down to Boston to lay seige on the British who were holding that place, and John Knox who never attended a military academy later became the Secretary of War in the Washington Administration. Alot of people who fought on the Rebel side in the American Revolution are amatuers and the British looked down their noses at them at their own peril!

I believe you mean General Henry Knox; and when/how does young Napoleon develop a relationship with him?

Regardless, as to your OP. Napoleon is too young to have played any part in the ARW - unless as a 7/8 year old he were to throw a snowball at a British soldier and touch off an event such as the Boston "massacre".
 
It's not kosher to redirect another person's thread; it's up to the OP to signal a redirect.

It's not redirecting, It's clarifying. The OP's post doesn't make all that much sense, It's better to have a discussion about this topic than just dismiss it as ASB.
 

Tom Kalbfus

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IN the US revolution not much. In the french one, dictatorship comes earlier.
The thing is, Napoleon would belong to a French-speaking minority in Quebec, that is Napoleon might rise to the leadership of an independent Quebec, but I still think regardless of Napoleon's skills, the English speaking American colonists would prefer to have George Washington as commander in chief, the French and Indian war is still a bit recent for too many people. They'll take French help, but not French leadership. Napoleon might end up as Governor or Quebec or even as dictator, but marching the Quebec army down south to conquer the rest of the 13 colonies in a wilderness area would be a bit much even for Napoleon.

Would Napoleon get Native Americans to march to his orders and follow his trategy precisely enough so as to make his battlefield skill effective?
The battlefields of North America at this time are different from those of Europe.
 
If I might offer a constructive suggestion - why not start a new thread w/a scenario in which Napoleon leads a Quebecois revolution against Great Britain in the mid 1790's. He'd be in his 20's then, the perfect age to stir up and lead a revolution in Quebec.
 
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