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Originally Posted by johndallman
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Although getting across the Atlantic with the entire Royal Navy of the period after you is not trivial.
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Presumably he had spme cunning plan to deal with that, else he wouldn't have broken out. I don't know what, but I'm not a military genius either. Anyway, that's the closest to a plausible explanation for Napoleon turning up in New Orleans in 1814 I can think of offhand. Conceivably, in an alternate history where the Haitian Revolution failed, he might've been made ruler of Haiti instead of Elba, and gone to Lousiana instead of France when he left, I suppose.