This is probably old news by now, but it's pretty surreal. Apparently, Kaiser Wilhelm II wanted to "put America in its place," and even had a US invasion plan drawn up in 1897.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,712147,00.html >From the article: "It was planned down to the last detail. Sixty German ships laden with tens of thousands of troops were to arrive at various points on the US Atlantic seaboard. Several thousand soldiers would land at Cape Cod and march into Boston, while heavy cruisers entered New York's Lower Bay to bombard Manhattan. In Washington, President Theodore Roosevelt would be forced to negotiate..." Now there's a scheme that was doomed to failure. Kevin Street
