AHC: US involvement in a general European War pre-1914

Elfwine

There weren't any "general European wars" pre-1914 that the US could really have gotten into.

If that changes - maybe? But probably not, and why would the US even want to?
 

Revolutionary Todyo

Banned
Elfwine said:
There weren't any "general European wars" pre-1914 that the US could really have gotten into.

If that changes - maybe? But probably not, and why would the US even want to?
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Well the thread I linked is about US territories in Europe, any wars the US could get into would help that,
 
NHBL

NHBL

Mess with shipping...

Messing (on a large scale) with American shipping is an almost sure-fire way to get the USA into a war. Most of our wars, that was a factor. How big a factor is debatable, but it was there. The Barary Wars--the Quasi-war with France, 1812, both World Wars...all had some part of the contribution in messing with American merchant ships.
 

Snake Featherston

Banned
NHBL said:
Messing (on a large scale) with American shipping is an almost sure-fire way to get the USA into a war. Most of our wars, that was a factor. How big a factor is debatable, but it was there. The Barary Wars--the Quasi-war with France, 1812, both World Wars...all had some part of the contribution in messing with American merchant ships.
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And they qualify as US involvement in a general European war pre-1914. ;)
 
NHBL

NHBL

Only minor

Snake Featherston said:
And they qualify as US involvement in a general European war pre-1914. ;)
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These are only minor involvement (though no war is minor if you're one of the dead or maimed) and I think the OP wanted things like an American expidionary force in Europe, or at least active alliance with a European power...
 

edvardas

csa lafayette

Louis Napoleon has his adventure while the civil war is starting.
by Cinco de Mayo the french have lost one battle and the confederates are not doing so well. The French ministers decide that if the Union wins they will kick the french out of Mexico. Therefore they scale back their operations in Mexico and negotiate with the Confederates. Judah Benjamin says that he is willing to emancipate negroes who fight for the Confederacy and that he will try to persuade Jefferson Davis With French help the Confederates win in 1863, gaining eastern Maryland, western Kentucky and the Gadsden purchase area.
When Prussia beats Austria in 1866, Napoleon is worried that France may have to fight Prussia, and decides to pull out of Mexico. Judah Benjamin, Robert E Lee and others go to France as military and logistic advisors. When war breaks out France decides on a defensive posture at the beginning. There is a stalemate in the Eastern Front until volunteers of Forrest's CEF arrive in Spring 1871 to turn the tide.

As a result of Benjamin's help for France, a certain Alfred Dreyfus rises from captain to general to minister of war. There may not be a World War I
 

Snake Featherston

Banned
NHBL said:
These are only minor involvement (though no war is minor if you're one of the dead or maimed) and I think the OP wanted things like an American expidionary force in Europe, or at least active alliance with a European power...
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Which is never going to happen for the good and simple reason that if it does, there will not be a United States that comes out of it.
 

Elfwine

Even if there is a US who could come out of it, why would the US want to enter a European War? What's in it for the US?
 
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