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Napoleon Part 6: Showdown at Waterloo
Real Dictators
The Great War
In 1803, Napoleon offloads the territory to Thomas Jefferson's government for a mates rate of $15 million. As it happens, as Napoleon is being packed off to Elba, the United States and Britain are at war again. Among other factors, the newly expansionist US had attempted to invade Canada. The War of 1812, which actually goes on for three years, will end in a relative stalemate - though not without British troops raiding Washington DC and torching the White House. Put all the elements together and this is a world war.
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