Keenir
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Considering the amount of discussion here, does anyone want to attempt a timeline?
I'd love to see it.
(I might re-try it too, but I'd like to see others' views too)
Considering the amount of discussion here, does anyone want to attempt a timeline?
Through supporting and propping up their chosen ruler, possibly a fair deal of influence, at least. Enough for protectorate? That would require something more to develop.
They weren't really allies, though. After the Revolutionary War, they general just left America alone, since their goal of rubbing it in Britain's face was done. Remember the XYZ affair? Franco-American relations weren't always that strong post-ARW.What I don't understand is why the Americans were apparently interested enough to send forces all of the way to Africa to defeat the corsairs, when they could have simply tried to get the French and Spaniards to do it for them. It's not as if the early U.S.'s allies were friends of the pirates.
This is a US which reduced the standing army to @80(!) men even as they were debating whether something should be done to prevent the imminent destruction of all white settlers in Ohio.
The minimum US force level to hold Tripoli would probably be more than the US in OTL was willing to field in the late 1850s, in terms of troops and in warships. Not going to happen. Period.