Lord Nelson taken prisoner at Trafalgar

Napoleon still looses catastrophically , but Nelson´s encircled flagship is entered by French marine infantry men the pirate way , Lord Nelson is taken prisoner, escorted to the French ship and brought to France. What does that change ?
 
Napoleon still looses catastrophically , but Nelson´s encircled flagship is entered by French marine infantry men the pirate way , Lord Nelson is taken prisoner, escorted to the French ship and brought to France. What does that change ?

no thoughts ?
 
well, he died at Trafalgar, so he has no OTL accomplishments to get butterflied.

Don't know enough about prisoner swap practices at the time. Would such a high profile commander get exchanged? France is going to want a king's ransom for the hero of T. Thinking it more likely they either kill him or let him rot in confinement til the end of hostilities, and Britain didn't make peace until 1814/1815. If he survives confinement, he comes home to a warm welcome, but he's 10 years past his hero time, so he gets a pension and a country estate, or he returns to duty being bored by peacetime navy life.

the other option is some sort of prisoner swap, he returns to duty. Britain already rules the seas, completely, so I don't really see anything changing. If you really wanted, you could write up a daring escape, and some daring shore raids around the world, but realistically, there isn't much opportunity for a man of his talents to change events.
 
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