Napoleon the Third goes for Haiti

Instead of trying to install a monarchy in Mexico, Could Napoleon the Third try to reconquer Haiti

How successfully would he be

How would the United States react

How would this impact the Dominican Restoration War
 

Marc

Donor
A authoritarian can try anything.
Question is why would he want to bother with a increasingly impoverished country that could easily be a nightmare?
 

Marc

Donor
Reconquest of a former colony and prestige

Napoleon III had his flaws, but stupidity really wasn't one them. For the costs involved, there were more at hand prestigious projects.

But he did just that in his invasion of mexico

Mexico then and now is vastly more wealthy than Haiti, there simply isn't any comparison. I'm a loss as to why people think of 19th century Mexico as some pathetically poor and hopeless state.
 
Well to answer your first question depending on whether or not the US will give a shit, Napoleon III will succeed in reconquering Haiti that is until the Franco Prussian war happens and will just be a repeat of the first Haitian revolution, i.e France gets rekt by Prussia, Haitians revolt and succeed with a toussaint like figure taking the helm again, France after the war tries to reconquer it but gets bogged down like the first time and they just throw up their hands and say "fuck it we'll focus on Africa and Indochina. Haiti will just be like it is today impoverished.
 
What if Napoleon III conquers Haiti, still looses to Prussia, and, as part of the peace treaty, has to give up Haiti to Prussia/Germany?
 
What if Napoleon III conquers Haiti, still looses to Prussia, and, as part of the peace treaty, has to give up Haiti to Prussia/Germany?

Bismarck would be very upset. First gaining Alsace-Lorraine and making a permanent enemy of France, and now gaining Haiti, a burden that would also arouse hostility from the US and the UK. His priority was to secure his new German Empire, instead he is making enemies and Haiti will be impossible to defend.
 

yeetboy

Banned
Gaining Carribean territory was a Wilhelm II ambition, I don’t think his grandfather had quite the same interest (And definitely not Bismarck).

I am unsure if a reconquered Haiti would ever become pacified, a country that has it’s roots in anticolonialism. Let’s say for argument that France manages to reconquer Haiti, and retain it for the rest of the 19th century. How would World War 1 be affected by a rebellious French province in Wilson Woodrow’s backyard? We could see a Haitan revolution, perhaps bringing the US into the central powers?
 
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