Challenge: Longest possible Napoleonic wars

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How long could the Napoleonic wars be drawn out?

As a basic outline, perhaps:
  1. (Optional) Napoleon captures Moscow intact, and winters in the city. The French retreat having taken fewer casualties.
  2. Napoleon wins a dramatic victory at Leipzig in 1813. IOTL the Russian Czar and the Prussian King, along with most of their senior staff, were nearly captured by French cavalry. ITTL, they are both captured and the French re-establish their borders of 1809.
  3. But the Coalition, being the Coalition, won't obey Napoleon for long. And Napoleon, being Napoleon, doesn't know when to stop. Napoleon invades Russia again after some minor treaty violation. This time, he marches through the Baltic countries to St. Petersburg. But British interdiction limits the amount of supplies that the British can ship through the Baltic Sea. The French are forced to withdraw from Russia again
  4. Another war in Germany, accompanied by Sweden under Bernadotte invading Denmark-Norway.
  5. French pull back to the Rhine, but by now it's the winter of 1816, and mass famine prevents the Coalition from fielding their massive armies. Napoleon against the odds wins an 1816 equivalent of the 1814 campaign in northeast France with a smaller Coalition force.
  6. It takes until 1818 for Napoleon to fall to the Coalition.
That's just a suggestion.
 

Pellaeon

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I suppose combinations 1, 3, 4, and 5 seem like it might prolong the war until 1820.

Though I'm not sure if the Europe could handle being at war for 30 years straight.
 
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