WI: Mr. Hamilton's War

So I had this idea for an Ameri-screw that I thought might actually make an interesting timeline. If this has been done before, please point me in the right direction.

Let's assume that, for some reason, John Adams is persuaded into prosecuting and engaging the Quasi-War. Since Napoleon's rise is just around the corner (theoretically), we'll say the declaration of hostilities occurs some time in 1798.
What happens? Do the French take the opportunity to force war debts out of America? Do the British become involved?

As a land war, it should be a curbstomp, though British intervention might make the naval war a bit more promising. The political implication would be dramatic. When the war is declared, the Democrat-Republicans will be up in arms, and the inevitable demand for a more organized military will certainly anger the states' rights advocates. When the French win, America will kick out Hamilton, Adams, and company, and likely take an anti-war stance to lick her own wounds. In addition, this should certainly butterfly away the British-American war in 1812. The ramifications of that should be very interesting.

On the French side, America will begin to look less and less like the embodiment of freedom and more like an agglomeration of angry rednecks led by ideological demagogues. Napoleon might look with more wrath on the New World later, and will vie to reclaim and hold Louisiana to check the Americans.
Though this depends on when Napoleon comes to power, which will likely be affected by this new war.

So, what do you think? Agree, disagree? I know less about French than American politics at the time, so please don't hesitate to fill me in.
 
So I had this idea for an Ameri-screw that I thought might actually make an interesting timeline. If this has been done before, please point me in the right direction.

Let's assume that, for some reason, John Adams is persuaded into prosecuting and engaging the Quasi-War. Since Napoleon's rise is just around the corner (theoretically), we'll say the declaration of hostilities occurs some time in 1798.
What happens? Do the French take the opportunity to force war debts out of America? Do the British become involved?

As a land war, it should be a curbstomp, though British intervention might make the naval war a bit more promising. The political implication would be dramatic. When the war is declared, the Democrat-Republicans will be up in arms, and the inevitable demand for a more organized military will certainly anger the states' rights advocates. When the French win, America will kick out Hamilton, Adams, and company, and likely take an anti-war stance to lick her own wounds. In addition, this should certainly butterfly away the British-American war in 1812. The ramifications of that should be very interesting.

On the French side, America will begin to look less and less like the embodiment of freedom and more like an agglomeration of angry rednecks led by ideological demagogues. Napoleon might look with more wrath on the New World later, and will vie to reclaim and hold Louisiana to check the Americans.
Though this depends on when Napoleon comes to power, which will likely be affected by this new war.

So, what do you think? Agree, disagree? I know less about French than American politics at the time, so please don't hesitate to fill me in.

Um...ever heard of The War of the Second Coalition?

Yeah...Britain isn't going to be helping France in 1798...kinda because they're at war with them.

If anything, it might actually help the Federalists in their goals for closer commercial and diplomatic ties with Britain and save the Anglophile Federalists and kill off the Francophile Republicans.
 
Will there be a land war? (Aside from maybe some fighting in Louisiana?) Does France have the capability for power projection across the Atlantic at this point, what with events in Europe?
 
1789? That's like wondering in 1861 how well the United States could invade Portugal, in an alternate timeline where Confederate troops are marching on D.C.
 
Was I not clear? It's 1798, and the Americans declare war on the French. Do the British help the Americans? What happens?
 
The French are storming the Bastille, and the Americans aren't going to invade France, so I don't think it'll amount to much.
 
Very little will happen. A few naval skirmishes and some brief fighting in Louisiana, which America will win. Not too much. France is fighting a massive war in Europe which dwarfs anything happening on the other side of the Atlantic. This will butterfly away the War of 1812 though I believe, with both nations at war with France relations should go up.
 
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