Re: [DL] (Off topic) an idea for a new RPG alter Earth world

[Vault Keeper <vaultkeeper@dupuis.shawbiz.ca>]

> Hi,
>     Interesting ideas.  But just what is your timeframe?  It isn't
entirely
> clear from your posting.  This is relevant as Napoleon was born in 1769
> which makes him a little young to be involved in the American Revolution.
> Obviously, you could alter the date of Napoleon's birth if necessary.
Also,
> I am under the impression the term "New France" referred mostly to what is
> now Eastern Canada plus bits of the Northern U.S.  New Orleans was part of
a
> separate colony, Louisiana.
>     As another idea, you might want to check out Bernard Cornwell's
Sharpe's
> Devil which chronologically ends his Sharpe's series with an adventure
> involving a scheme to free Napoleon from St Helena and bring him to South
> America in order that he help the people of South America throw off the
> Spanish yoke.  While the aventure occurs at the end of Napoleon's life, it
> does shed some light on what type of man Napoleon was.
>     As a side note, the Sharpe series are very good in explaining land
> warfare around 1800.  For naval affairs, you could do worse than looking
up
> Dewey Lambdin's Alan Lewrie books which are much more amusing than
> Hornblower.
>           Daniel
> "Thus conscience doth make cowards of us all."
>      Hamlet, Act III, scene i.


It's funny that you mention Bernard Cornwell, he was the writer who inspired
me to write about American Revolution, ether as Historical fiction series
like Sharpe or the RPG.

About the AH RPG world, the battle of Chesapeake Bay was the battle of
Yorktown right?. I need also who were the Allies of the Bitish during the
war,