DBWI: The British wins the Battle of Trafalgar

Viscount Nelson only had a portion of the British fleet with him at Trafalgar so total defeat here would not have presented the French with any additional benefit. It certainly may have cut a few years off the Napoleonic Wars, which would have been a boon to the various European countries being economically devastated by the continuation of Napoleon's 'continental system'.

By 1821 Napoleonic Europe was coming apart at the seams and Napoleon's flight into exile did little to calm the revolutionary forces that reshaped the continent.
 
What if England had won that decisive battle in 1805.

If it's a total defeat Napoleon's days would be numbered. England would rule the ocean, cut off France's access to their colonies, and land armies where ever they feel like. I think France would probably be stripped of her overseas territories as part of any treaty ending the war. And it's certain that England would try to restrict France from ever growing in power and threatening them again. We'll see an English, Prussian, and Russian Africa as France is restricted to Europe instead of the French, Spanish, and Italian one that we have
 
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