French/Spanish reinforcements during BoT?

Hi...new writer here.

I want to write an AH timeline, with the divergence being that the French win the Battle of Trafalgar.

My justification for this is that reinforcements from the Spanish/French side arrive in time. Is this realistic, or even possible?
 
Well, how do they manage to arrive in time?

Keeping in mind that they're dependent on the wind, and a change to the winds may have effects outside their presence.
 
Hmm. Perhaps it's not sudden reinforcements, but merely better morale among the French/Spanish forces overall, somehow?
But how would that work?
 
There ARE reinforcements around, and they could have left earlier and joined up, but the defeat wasn't really a numbers thing, more superior British tactics and leadership, with all the morale boost that that gave them

Best Regards
Grey Wolf
 
Hmm. Perhaps it's not sudden reinforcements, but merely better morale among the French/Spanish forces overall, somehow?
But how would that work?

A less fatalistic leader? More self belief (despite the facts and despite the feeling that the British are out to get them, because they've got them every tmie before)

A battle plan? IIRC the Franco-Spanish plan was more about trying to avoid battle and achieve the objective, than about fighting the British - again for the reasons given above, but it ceded a huge advantage to the attacking side

Best Regards
Grey Wolf
 
Just better coordination would make the Brits loose the battle ... but with heavy loses for the French and Spanish, that would make an strategic victory for the Brits anyway ...
 
Just better coordination would make the Brits loose the battle ... but with heavy loses for the French and Spanish, that would make an strategic victory for the Brits anyway ...

I'm not sure how much better coordination the Franco-Spanish fleet could have. The British tactics were specifically designed around breaking that fleet into several parts so that all coordination was disrupted. For the Franco-Spanish fleet to be better organised would require the British fleet to fail to do their job, and that pretty much guarantees a French/Spanish victory anyway.
 
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