How do you think the US could've pulled this off?
Here's my timeline tell me what you think.
The POD is the war of 1812, in this timeline the war of 1812 continues into 1815 and Napoleon wins the battle of Waterloo, which paves for the US to succesfully invade Canada.
1814 - Napoleon is defeated in the war of the sixth coalition and is exiled to the island of Elba, with France defeated the british can now focus on the US, and start to fight the war in a more aggressive way.
1815 - Napoleon escapes from Elba, June 18 Napoleon wins the battle of Waterloo, after hearing news of Napoleon's amazing victory americans decide to launch another invasion, after suffering such a defeat the british can longer send more troops to canada, during the rest of the year americans will conquer Newfoundland, Labrador, Quebec, Ontario, New Brunswick & Nova Scotia
1816 - The british continue to suffer defeats both in europe & america.
1817 - Tired of fighting both wars the british sue for peace. American ego is boosted tremendously they no longer fear the british.
US gains:
- Newfoundland, Labrador, Quebec, New Brunswick & Nova Scotia
1818 - Napoleon is finally defeated, the british furious because they lost much territory in Canada because of him decide to execute him.
1819 - Purchase of Florida
1836 - Texas declares independence from Mexico.
1845 - Texas is annexed
1846 - The US declare war on the british empire over the Oregon boundary dispute, Mexico declares war on the US to recover Texas, the americans understand the mexicans are much weaker and decide to fight an offensive war against the mexicans while they fight a defensive war against the british.
1848 - mexican-american war ends in mexican defeat
US gains:
- Same as OTL
1849 - Tensions begin to grow between the Russian empire and the British empire. Americans take the war to Canada.
1850 - Veterans from the Mexican-American war are brought to the canadian front, british hold their ground and the war reaches a stalemate
1852 - The americans see some success on the battlefield.
1853 - The Crimean war breaks out, americans use this to their advantage and occupy most canadian territory, the british tired of fighting endless wars against the americans, understand it will be impossible to hold on to canada and decide to end the war with the US by selling it to them so they can concentrate on Europe. American ego is boosted tremendously after defeating the british for a 3rd time.
US gains:
All territory of canada, the US will pay the british $20,000,000
To counter this the south demands the rest of Mexico to be annexed in another war, the north trying to avoid civil war agrees
1853 - A succesful filibuster by William Walker conquers the states of Baja California & Sonora and declares the Republic of Lower California and immediately seeks help from the US, Mexico will not tolerate this and declares war, the US intervenes
1858 - Mexico finally surrenders all of its territory
US gains:
All Mexican territory
1859 - Purchase of Alaska
1861 - On the brink of civil war, the north and the south reach a diplomatic solution, the southern states will remain slave states for another 20 years and slavery will be abolished in 1881, all slave owners will also recieve a compensation.
1862 - Purchase of British Honduras and Bermuda
1869 - Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic) asks to join the Union, Santo Domingo is annexed.
1870-1875 - Several filibuster missions are funded, all of central america is annexed.
US gains:
Guatemala, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama.
1880 - construction of the Panama Canal begins.
1881 - Slavery abolished.
1882 - Haiti asks to join the Union
1883 - Haiti is finally admitted into the union and both Santo domingo and Haiti become a single state called Hispaniola
1898 - Hawaii is annexed, Spanish-American war breaks out and ends in spanish defeat.
US gains:
Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam and the Philippines