En 1776, les 13 colonies publient leur déclaration d’indépendance. Treize ans plus tard, elles deviennent un pays et rédigent leur Constitution.
En 1821, alors que le Mexique devient indépendant grâce à l’action de Napoléon exilé en Amérique, le Missouri devient le 24e état des Etats-Unis.
Et si Napoléon s’était exilé aux Etats-Unis est disponible en Anglais
NAPOLEON’S EXILE IN AMERICA
by Guy Hervier (Author)
On February 26, 1815, Napoleon boarded the Inconstant with his general staff and a little over 1,200 men. On March 1, 1815, Napoleon and his troops landed in the roadstead of Golfe-Juan. He marched north to Paris and made a triumphant entry into the Tuileries Palace on March 20, 1815 — from which the king had fled only the day before. The adventure ended with the calamitous Battle of Waterloo, one of the open wounds of the national narrative.
And yet, he could have continued the war had he not returned to Paris and had he not been abandoned by his peers. On June 23, Napoleon abdicated for the second time. Threatened with being handed over to the enemy, he departed for Rochefort, hoping to seek asylum in the United States. Thanks to discreet supporters, he managed to board the American ship General Pike and set sail for the New World. James Madison was then President of the United States, following the difficult succession of the deeply Francophile Thomas Jefferson. Together with numerous high-ranking French military officers exiled like himself, as well as the privateers Aury and Lafitte and the insurgent Francisco Xavier Mina, he would go on to upset the fate of New Spain.
