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Old 06-06-2008, 07:10 PM   #12
irridgita

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I've always wondered if Napoleon could have bought off the English somehow. By that I really mean, what if he'd found a way to keep them neutral. Possibilities I'd considered:

1) Complete opposite of the Continental System. Suppose he'd offered tarriff-free access to all French-controlled Europe to British merchants so long as Britain behaved nicely.
2) Sold Louisiana and/or other colonies to the British instead of the Americans in exchange for money and future neutrality, maybe even proposed some Treaty of Tordesillas-style arrangement.
3) Sold them a large part of his fleet (pre-Trafalgar obviously) as a sign that he'd not be a threat.

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Alternatively, I wonder what would have happened if he'd overthrown Austria and Prussian monarchies and replaced them with dysfunctional democracies, not for love of freedom, but just to make it really hard for those countries to mobilize against him again.
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