Who would get French Guiana?

JJohnson

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Let's say France loses French Guiana after the Napoleonic Wars. If any of the UK's allies could be 'granted' that land (not the UK itself), which one would be most likely?
 
Likely the Netherlands or Portugal. The Netherlands, because they have the colony Suriname bordering to French Guyana or Portugal, because Brazil was still after the Napoleonic Wars an colony/Kingdom within the Portuguese Empire.
 
I believe the most likely would be Portugal/Brasil. If not them probably Britain who would get it instead of British Guyana, which had been Dutch.
 

JJohnson

Banned
In the Seventh Coalition, the Dutch looked to be on the side of the British.

So, French Guiana is transferred to the Netherlands. Do you think that British Guiana and the new larger Dutch Guiana would be split roughly in half between the two, or the British would let the Dutch take 2 of 3 Guianas?
 
So, French Guiana is transferred to the Netherlands. Do you think that British Guiana and the new larger Dutch Guiana would be split roughly in half between the two, or the British would let the Dutch take 2 of 3 Guianas?
You look at it the wrong way. British Guyana was Dutch (although occupied by the British), but after the Napoleonic wars the British decided to keep the western part of Dutch Guyana, making it British Guyana. So it is possible that in a scenario in which France loses French Guyana, the British take French Guyana instead of part of Dutch Guyana.

Mind you i think it is more likely the Portuguese (and thus later Brasil) gain French Guyana.
 
As retribution for the invasion of Portugal, French Guiana was occupied in 1809 with 700 Portuguese troops from Para. The invasion force sailed with 1 Royal Navy Frigate and 4 Portuguese ships.

The invasion began on 15 December 1808 and the French governor surrendered at Cayenne without resistance on January 12, 1809.

At the Congress of Vienna, the Portuguese agreed to return the territory, however the borders were established with France. It was only on 21 November 1817 that the Portuguese returned the territory to the French.
 
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