A viewer suggests that an earlier end to the War of 1812 would have made more Peninsula veterans available to Wellington at Waterloo. The reply agrees and reverses the scenario, imagining those veterans sent to America if the Anglo-American war continued after Waterloo. Wellington and Cochrane are imagined leading that campaign. This is a counterfactual about the transfer of experienced forces between theatres.
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Peninsula veterans in a continued Anglo-American war
Two counterfactuals connect the availability of Peninsula veterans with Waterloo and a continued North American campaign.