Post by Baise-moi on Aug 9, 2017 17:11:30 GMT -4
Imagine for a second that Napoleon was able to gain an upper hand on Britain, and his navy magically became strong enough to overwhelm the royal navy. He launches a successful invasion of Britain that ends in a victory, and as such Britain is humiliated, forced to pay massive reparations and reduce the royal navy's power drastically, and basically is weakened enough that it cannot, by any miracle, rejoin the war and hope to be victorious. This can be applied to any point during the Napoleonic Wars.
Since Britain was the main driving force behind the coalitions, and contributed the most to the wars in their entirety, do you think that the rest of Europe would have been able to defend from Napoleonic France's might? Would the invasion of Russia have been enough to stop France in its tracks? How much would the coalitions suffer without British help?
I personally think it would not have been possible given just how large a role Britain played, but I want to know what everyone else thinks. Would France have still suffered defeat (perhaps at a lighter cost, hanging onto certain territories, etc.) or would it have remained the dominant power as it was?
Since Britain was the main driving force behind the coalitions, and contributed the most to the wars in their entirety, do you think that the rest of Europe would have been able to defend from Napoleonic France's might? Would the invasion of Russia have been enough to stop France in its tracks? How much would the coalitions suffer without British help?
I personally think it would not have been possible given just how large a role Britain played, but I want to know what everyone else thinks. Would France have still suffered defeat (perhaps at a lighter cost, hanging onto certain territories, etc.) or would it have remained the dominant power as it was?
