France forms an official alliance with the US in the Napoleonic Wars

[Jericho15]

Think about it. What if Napoleon saw the strategic benefit of making an official alliance with the United States entrenched in a war with a common enemy (Britain) during the War of 1812. Perhaps then could've sent arms, supplies and maybe even troops across the Atlantic allowing the US to make gains in British North America and potentially turning the tables on the war with the US emerging as a world power early on in the Ninteenth Century using resources found in the captured Canadian lands.

[Gaius Julius Magnus]

Weren't they already de facto allies, and most likley War of 1812 plays out the same way only now there is a North American theater, which will be remebered in the same way as what the French and Indian War is with the Seven Year's War

[Jericho15]

They had no communication or coordination during the War of 1812 whatsoever. The French ignored the fighting in North America.

I contend that the French would have been able to cause the British to spread themselves to thinly due to British desire to protect and maintain every single territory weakening their effort in Europe and maybe allowing Napoleon to end the war more favorably in his terms with a satisfactory connection with the new nation in North America.

[AdA]

Aren't you guys in the wrong forum?

[Jericho15]

Yeah I realized that as soon as I posted it. Sorry, I'm new.

[Simreeve]

Any significant aid that Napoleon had tried sending to America in 1812 would almost certainly have been intercepted by the Royal Navy...