napoleon

Whilst there's a bunch of threads on the site about constitutions, I've yet to find one on this subject: "WI: most countries didn't have a written constitution?" That doesn't mean that countries can't have constitutions, of course, they just have to be uncommon. (1) What sort of POD would be...

Now, to be clear, I'm not asking whether Napoleon could have won the war, I've read enough threads on the subject to know that he is most likely defeated by an incoming Austrian army if Napoleon wins at Waterloo. My question is waht the impact of Austria dealing the final blow on Napoleon would...

Chapter 1 8 Thermidor "During the French Revolution, Maximilien Robespierre was a leader who fought for the rights of the common people. However, some people called the Thermidorians wanted to take power away from him. They were afraid of Robespierre because they saw him as a threat to their...

If Napoleon and Josephine had a son early in their marriage, how would this affect the Bonaparte dynasty ruling France? Could this prolong the French empire and possibly prevent Napoleon from losing his throne? More importantly, who would Napoleon marry his son off to if such circumstances were...

Every now and then I think up a new Napoleon victory scenario with a little more knowledge then before, and a different goal. This time I wanted to get Napoleon’s maximum (and extremely generous) somewhat-plausible victory based on avoiding his worst mistakes and making some good ones, and...

Napoleon as he took over France, began to consolidate the state and its instructions around himself being a monarch in all but name as "First Consul." Napoleon by the Early 19th Century became much more of a moderate Conservative and drifted towards monarchism as a means to preserve the ideals...

Like it says on the tin. Was there any way the Austrian Empire could've gotten its hands on Silesia as a result of the Treaty of Tilsit? Perhaps if the War of the Fourth Coalition was an even tougher victory for Napoleon than IOTL (the French armies were exhausted and far from home), and so he...

This time, unlike my last TL, I want to avoid France's dramatic population lag and confirm them as the #1 Power, more effectively neutering the UK and Russia. The lore this time is simple. I want to prevent Napoleon's four greatest mistakes. 1. Not Dismantling Prussia. 2. The Continental...

Fought on February 7-8 1807, the Battle of Eylau was a bloody, indecisive slog that, despite ending with a Russian retreat from the field, left the French so exhausted they were in no shape to pursue them. The War of the Fourth Coalition only ended in June that year, with the Battle of...

After the 1809 revolution in Sweden, the new king was childless and an adoptive heir was sought. The consensus candidate, Charles August of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg_Augustenburg, ultimately died of a stroke when he fell from his horse. After this, Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, one of the more...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Acre_(1799) What if the French got lucky - suppose they breach the outer wall early in the siege, before the defenders have time to build a second one - and took Acre in 1799? While the fate of his campaign was sealed the moment the fleet was destroyed at...

The decisive engagement of the War of the Fifth Coalition, the Battle of Wagram came on the heels of the French defeat at Aspern-Essling and ended with a decisive yet bloody victory for them. The Austrian army's numerical disadvantage was worsened by the fact the reinforcements (around 13.000...

Napoleon's first wife was a woman known to posterity as Joséphine Bonaparte or Joséphine de Beauharnais. When he had himself crowned Emperor of the French in 1804, she became his empress. However, because they never had children, Napoleon had their marriage annulled and married Marie Louise of...

https://www.guillaumeblanc.com/files/theme/Blanc_secularization.pdf Many people believe that the French demographic decline started after the French Revolution, when in fact it started as early as the 1730s. The cause of this is theorised to be early secularisation, but why this early...

So, this is a far fetch idea, but bear with me here. During WWII, between 1942 to 1944, Adolf Hitler ordered the construction of an extensive system of coastal defenses and fortification on the coastal areas of Nazi-Occupied Europe. It was built as a way to deter Allied invasion (Mainly British...

"The principal weapon of the Corsicans was their courage. This courage was so great that in one of these battles, near a river named Golo, they made a rampart of their dead in order to have the time to reload behind them before making a necessary retreat; their wounded were mixed among the dead...

What is the impact of a no Napoleon situation for France?

WI instead of imposing a Continental system and banning trade with Britain, Napoleon forces all of France + his client states to remove all tariffs and encourage internal trade relative to trade with Britain? This would be less disruptive and cause less resentment. Russia, Austria, Prussia...

Hello everyone So this is something I've been thinking for a while and while I'm not planning on making that into a timeline(for now anyways) Im rather curious about what one could do with it So Im creating this thread both for future me and/or for someone else who may want to understake the...

Does Napoleon win? How long does he win for, afaik he's still greatly outnumbered and it's not like a defeat at Waterloo would just have the coalition go "Oh well he beat us, so I guess he can be emperor of France"