A successful Napoleonic invasion of Britian?

How would a successful invasion of Britain look like? With potentially a independent Scotland Ireland would there be any other changes?
 
This is of course assuming a scenario in which Napoleonic France is the dominant naval power and is able to supply and reinforce a very successful Grande Armee.
 
How would a successful invasion of Britain look like? With potentially a independent Scotland Ireland would there be any other changes?

If Napoleon manages to invade Britain, it will be due to an incredible amount of luck, and even then it will only barely succeed.

With his troops bogged down in Britain, and with the rest of the British Navy on its way back from North America and India, Napoleon would probably go for a "peace with honor". I'd imagine it would look something like this:
-British recognition of French dominance on the continent
-Britain pays some reparations to France
-Britain hands over some minor colonies and islands (maybe Guyana, Malta, the Channel Islands, etc.)
-Britain maybe agrees to short term limits on its army and navy
 
Oh and independent Ireland, yes, Independent Scotland, possibly,

I wouldn't go that far. Like CthulhuFhtagn said, Napoleon would probably end up boged down with British reinforcements incoming. He wouldn't have the troops to control Ireland and Scotland, let alone force London to give up about half of the United Kingdom. Best case Napoleon gets formal recognition of the situation on the continent, Britain to back off in support for any future coalitions against him, some minor colonies (Malta would be especially important, as would some of the Caribbean colonies returned to the Bourbons OTL), maybe destruction of the coastal fortifications and some kind of naval limit. Napoleon might do crazy shit be even he knows that he can't make completely unreasonable, unenforceable demands.
 
Why would Scotland separate from England in this scenario? Napoleon, if wildly successful, could invade and press demands, but he's not going to wind up in charge of England.
 
This is of course assuming a scenario in which Napoleonic France is the dominant naval power and is able to supply and reinforce a very successful Grande Armee.
If France is the dominant naval power, then there's very little point in conquering Britain.
If France is the dominant naval power, then the British ships cannot travel freely to and from the colonies, strangulating the economy. In fact, the whole Napoleonic policy of Continental Blockade would become meaningless. They could just blockade Britain by sea until they gave in.

If Britain is military bested on the sea and cannot trade with its colonies, it has no choice but to become an "ally" of the Napoleonic France.
 

Redbeard

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If Napoleon is allowed to consolidate his continental hegemony, either by Alexander staying put after 1807 or by a more successful 1812 campaign he will have the resources to construct and train a navy superior to the Royal navy. If so it will be a matter of time before he controls GB too, and I guess a partion will be likely. But why just Scotland, Ireland etc. Why not Wessex, East Anglia etc? A Confederation of The Channel... :D

Short of that consolidation I find any succesful invasion of GB very unlikely. One thing is finding a window of opportunity to slip across the Channel but another is to keep control and contact back home with an intact RN afloat.

To control GB you need to rule the waves.

Regards

Redbeard
 
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