Inspired by the timeline by @RamscoopRaider "Ghastly Victories: The United States in the World Wars", where WW1 is longer(lasting well into 1919) and bloodier, but where the Entente still manages to eke out a costly victory. What would be some POD(s) in the period of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars that could have led to a prolonged war?
A few examples that come to my mind: if Portugal is taken out in 1801 in the War of the Oranges(Spain OTL didn't wanted to occupy the country, merelly force Lisbon to abandon Britain, which they did untill the Battle of Trafalgar iirc), if Admiral Nelson dies in the Battle of the Nile and Trafalgar is either a Franco-Spanish victory or a stalemate. A scenario a friend suggested after i mentioned the idea would be a bigger invasion of Russia caused by no Peninsula War(maybe becuse of Portugal being occupied as early as 1801).
A few examples that come to my mind: if Portugal is taken out in 1801 in the War of the Oranges(Spain OTL didn't wanted to occupy the country, merelly force Lisbon to abandon Britain, which they did untill the Battle of Trafalgar iirc), if Admiral Nelson dies in the Battle of the Nile and Trafalgar is either a Franco-Spanish victory or a stalemate. A scenario a friend suggested after i mentioned the idea would be a bigger invasion of Russia caused by no Peninsula War(maybe becuse of Portugal being occupied as early as 1801).
