"What if" topic Suggestions

[10thMountain]

Hello,
       I was thinking of the following "what if" scenarios:

US - Mexican War circa 1837?
US - French War circa 1860's?
"54 - 40 or fight" scenario

Any suggestions?

[Inkpaduta]

In the 1830s the Nullification Crisis in the US nearly brought a civil war.
So how about the American Civil War starts some 30 years earlier?

[10thMountain]

Hello,
       I was thinking about that one as well. Thank you

[carlos marighela]

Aroostook War, 1838. Britain/US. It came quite close to a being a real shooting war.

The Pig War, 1859. Britain/US. See above.

[Antonio J Carrasco]

French intervention in the US Civil War, with the CSA Army of the West supported by a French Intervention Corps, fighting the US Army and Mexican rebels in Texas and Mexico. It could be very colourful.

[robh]

How about a US involvement in the Boshin war after the burning of the US consulate and if, like the Pembroke, the USS Wyoming had been sunk at Shimonoseki in July 1862

[10thMountain]

Boshin conflict sounds interesting.

[pacofeanor]

British intervention in the franco prussian war 1870 ....

regards
paco

[Matakakea]

British intervention to support Hanover during the Seven Weeks war in 1866?

[frank xerox]

Oh now that's a good one

[pacofeanor]

I have just read  the last "La Sabretache", special issue "1870",

https://epopees-histoire.fr/1271472-1870-1871-regards-sur-la-guerre-franco-allemande.html

 The french marine, planned a desembarquement in northern germany, of a complete army corps (french" troupes de marines" and  troops and boats from algeria). They needed, from the Danish government, to let the french fleet comme through baltic sea.

They plan a complete allliance with Danemark wich part was to furnish another complete amry corps. By the same way french diplomats tried to join Hanover to the coalition, but failed.

Surprisingly Danish diplomacy thought positively about it when the desasters of august 1870 became.

The deal was , of course, the return of the duchies lost in 1864 to Danemark.

French/Danish/hanovrians against germans... what a" what iff" !

regards
paco

[vtsaogames]

ACW nearly started in 1850 with President Zachary Taylor threatening to lead the Union army in person against seccesionists. Then he ate those cherries...

[Baron von Wreckedoften]

I was thinking of the following "what if" scenarios:

US - French War circa 1860's?

The other two sounded very plausible, but this one is very (very!!!) unlikely - primarily because the US Army was busy styling itself exclusively on that of France at the time!  I think even the relevant US drill books were translations of their French equivalents!

But then, America did already have "history" of biting the hand that fed it......

British intervention in the franco prussian war 1870 ....

Although the 1860s had seen an anti-French invasion scare, leading to the construction of several forts along the south coats of England, it had also seen Prussia invade and annexe Hannover, so neither side - or both! - was particularly appealing to interventionists.  However, there were several unofficial British-raised ancillary units on both sides, particularly ambulance columns; in one, serving with the Prussian army, was a British Army surgeon named William Manley, who became the only person to be awarded the Victoria Cross (Maori War) and the Iron Cross (FPW).