TinyTartar
Banned
In OTL, we are aware that there were plans after the Battle of Saratoga to follow up with another invasion of Canada. Logistically speaking, this was not possible until spring/summer of the next year because of the needs of the Southern Army and reform of the quartermasters department. There were plans for Washington to send the Marquis de Lafayette to Albany to take command of the Northern Department and proceed up Lake Champlain to make a go at Montreal.
This invasion never got off the ground, however, as miscommunication in levying militia again as well as logistical failures and a lack of will by the state of New York to support the army now that it was not under existential threat anymore from the North made it so Lafayette returned to the Hudson Highlands in frustration, and the Northern Army was instead spit up, with some troops sent south to Washington's army on the Hudson while the rest of the regulars were commanded by Sullivan and campaigned against the Iroquois for the next year and drove them from New York.
But what if the invasion actually got off of its feet? Do you think it would have more success than the last one? Would Lafayette's French origin make any difference with getting the native population to support the Americans a bit more?
This invasion never got off the ground, however, as miscommunication in levying militia again as well as logistical failures and a lack of will by the state of New York to support the army now that it was not under existential threat anymore from the North made it so Lafayette returned to the Hudson Highlands in frustration, and the Northern Army was instead spit up, with some troops sent south to Washington's army on the Hudson while the rest of the regulars were commanded by Sullivan and campaigned against the Iroquois for the next year and drove them from New York.
But what if the invasion actually got off of its feet? Do you think it would have more success than the last one? Would Lafayette's French origin make any difference with getting the native population to support the Americans a bit more?