napoleon

After the great Spanish victory at Bailén, which resulted in the surrender of almost 20.000 French troops and the collapse of their position in the Iberian Peninsula, Napoleon launched a massive offensive involving more than 250.000 soldiers. The Spanish army, vastly outnumbered on the...

Napoleon Bonaparte or, also known by his Corsican name, Napoleone Buonaparte, was the first son of Carlo Buonaparte and Maria-Letizia Bonaparte and was also the first brother of Joseph Bonaparte and the future French Emperor, the Napoleon Bonaparte. However, he died in infancy on 17 August 1765...

AGOD Part One: Nemesis "Napoleon on the Sands at Boulogne, France" by Andrew Carrick Gow What is the whole history of England, but a continued scene of rapine and desolation, with now and then a few solitary intervals of repose? ~ William Sherwin, radical journalist and Napoleon sympathizer...

Basically the same as all of the other threads but with the question, 'What if Napoleon Won'?

The Prussian army is destroyed and both Blutcher and Gneisenau are killed. The British army suffers heavy casualties and is captured, with Arthur Wellesley also dying. However, Napoleon is shot during the battle and dies in Paris the day after. With the Emperor dead, France surrenders to the...

The Battle of Waterloo is one of the most famous battles in all of history. An almost immortalised event, entrenched in the minds of many. Napoleon I returned from his exile and decimated his opponents one last time. The Prussian army was destroyed, with Blutcher and Gneisenau dead. The British...

THE GOLDEN EAGLE REDUX Greetings everyone, surprised to see me again? Here I am returning to do something that has been a long time coming. Did I abandon the Iron Eagle? Of course not, an Axis victory is still one of my favorite subjects to speculate about and I have plans to expand that...

Napoleon was a very romantic man, if not a little obsessed. He adored Joséphine, forgiving her for her affair with Hippolyte Charles, constantly writing her letters, and treating her children as his own, especially Eugene. Ultimately he had to divorce her and, seeking to establish himself as a...

So, here's my idea: in 1808 when Joseph Bonaparte is appointed King of Spain the Kingdom of Naples is not given to Murat, but instead merged with the Kingdom of Italy. OTL the King of Italy was Napoleon, but Eugène de Beauharnais, Napoleon's stepson, was the viceroy and, until the birth of an...

Haiti became the second country in the New World to become independent from a colonial power, and was the first largely Black society to do so. But, that independence was rocky in the early years and was hindered by the refusal of France to recognize Haitian freedom until crippling reparations...

In OTL, after a peace treaty in 1807, Alexander I of Russia and Emperor Napoleon became friends, being cordial with each other, and forming an alliance. This friendship lasted until Russia began to distance themselves from the French, and Napoleon invaded Russia. However before that, supposedly...

Let's say that Josephine and Nappy had an only child, that being a daughter who became very obsessed with her father's military exploits to the point where she wanted to walk in his footsteps as a military leader. (Almost impossible for a woman in that period of time to do, there were though the...

I was thinking about this defunct TL that made me write this post. If Alexander I of Russia and Napoleon decided to agree on invading the Ottomans together and splitting up the empire among themselves, how radically different will Europe, the Middle East, and (to a smaller extent) North Africa...

The peninsular war was a bloodbath that drained the french empire's resources and ultimately led to the death of the Spanish Empire, as well as the Portuguese. Its causes are complicated, with Portugal not joining the don't-trade-with-Britain-club, internal unrest in Spain and napoleon having...

what if Napoleon jointly invades ottoman empire ? by negotiates a ceasefire with Austria, Russia, Spain forms alliance with them and Qajar Persia against ottoman empire and supports nativist and religious rebellions all over the ottoman empire invaded ottoman Egypt and Syria along with Austria...

In 1804, Napoleon famously crowned himself Emperor of the French, ending the French Republic, and the start of the French Empire. However, I have a question... How did people, from Royal to Peasant, from outside and inside of France, from Europe to the Americas, react to Napoleon crowning...

Let's say Napoleon doesn't try to escape in 1815 and he's still in Elba when the July, 1830 Revolution happens. Charles X flees into exile and Napoleon decides to make a break for it. He lives longer than on St. Helena due to much better and healthier conditions and he takes care of himself...

Of late, i've been brainstorming out some AH ideas, and being that i'm good at coming up with sweeping ideas, but less so in sussing out plausibilites, I have chosen to come to the AH.Com forum with my idea and request feedback with a view towards writing a TL. Essentially, my idea boils down...

POD 1700 Peter I Starts the colonization of Alaska Elizabeth lives longer to destroy Prussia and gets pomerania connect Russia to Atlantic North Sea via her successor Peter III's duchies of schleswig and holstein giving Russia's first warm water port in an ocean She doesn't help French...

When Napoleon was to launch his invasion of Britain he was also planning to send a smaller invasion force to Ireland so as to stir up rebellion there and establish a French satellite/puppet state. So I've been working on an alternate history novel based around the failed Irish rebellion of 1803...