Complete Napoleonic victory over Britain; consequences for the rest of the world

Hmm, I had found a book of AH Scenarios soley focused on Napoleonic Victories. One of them I read involved some British or Spanish admiral who didn't die prior to the Nile. The Nile Expedition was definitely a naval turning point.

The British Navy didn't really get its fame until after the Napoleonic War. The British and English navy was often enough floating wrecks as the ability for the crown to pay (or even be interested) wasn't always resolute and were defeated by the Spanish, French, and Dutch.
 
WI the authorities managed to really cock up the response the Naval Mutinies and somehow to radicalize them so a section of the RN goes over to the Revulitonaries?

I KNOW in OTL the mutineers were very clear that they would be prepared to fight against France but there have been instances of revolts over local issues causing those involved to radicalize>?
 
WI the authorities managed to really cock up the response the Naval Mutinies and somehow to radicalize them so a section of the RN goes over to the Revulitonaries?

I KNOW in OTL the mutineers were very clear that they would be prepared to fight against France but there have been instances of revolts over local issues causing those involved to radicalize>?

The Nore was more politicised than the Spithead Mutiny. Spithead was more of a strike (like the Invergordon Mutiny in the 1930s) than any real threat to the nation. The Nore mutineers wanted more than a pay rise and better food etc.The Nore mutineers wanted peace with France.

If the authorities had put the Nore Mutiny down harder (not that it wasn't hard enough for the 30 or thereabouts mutineers who dangled from yard arms in the aftermath) coupled with a thumping defeat at say Camperdown in October of 97 then perhaps the mutinous spirit might have reignited.

Throw in a few more single ship mutinies of the Hermione scale (Why Bligh is remembered as a tyrant and not Pigot of the Hermione beats me. Pigot was a complete and utter psycho. This mutiny took place in 1797 where the crew killed the officers and sailed into a Spanish port in the Caribbean) and a ship or two like the Danae (this took place in 1800 part of the crew mutinied and took the ship over to the French)

How far a string of mutinies would have seriously damaged the Navy thereafter is anyone's guess
 
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Since everyone on here seems to think Napoleon invading Britain is next to impossible, why don't you just go by the continental system triumphing, and Napoleon forcing a humiliating treaty on Britain that way?

The problem with that is that Napoleon frequently undermined the system by allowing trade between Britain and France while demanding that other European nations keep to it strictly. That and Britain was able to find more markets to sell their goods in that France couldn't.
 
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