Napoleon's balloon attack on England

Isn't this from that book where dragons exist and are used in the Napoleonic wars? "Tremaire" or something, right? Eh, didn't work in that one either :p
 
Well, France is the only country to completely conquer and subjugate England, might happen again :p



I can picture waves of French troops coming after the first airborne wave. They'd swim across the Channel, dressed up for camouflage, maybe dressed up as some sort of sea mammal. I feel there is a good name for an operation to invade GB but just can't find it

Operation Land-Dolphin? Project Otter?
 
Operation Land-Dolphin? Project Otter?

Something more majestic. Sea tiger? Sea wildcat?

If they re-adopted the longbow they could light the balloons on fire with flaming arrows

Or giant ballistas. STEAMPUNK Giant ballistas.


Isn't this from that book where dragons exist and are used in the Napoleonic wars? "Tremaire" or something, right? Eh, didn't work in that one either

Curse you! I already have too many books on my reading list!
 
Isn't this from that book where dragons exist and are used in the Napoleonic wars? "Tremaire" or something, right? Eh, didn't work in that one either :p

It's Temeraire, like the ship, or His Majesty's dragon in the US I think.

Also the Normans weren't French so not sure how France conquered and subjugated England when it was yet another kind of viking.
 
Also the Normans weren't French so not sure how France conquered and subjugated England when it was yet another kind of viking.

They were technically French :D

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They were technically French :D

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Perhaps eventually, but at the time of the invasion they were clearly a distinct group.

Also it's not like the French king took possession of England. Or that he contributed anything to the invasion.

Trying to say that the Normans were French is like saying the Bretons were or that Americans are English.

Or you mean that the duke of Normandy owed fealty to the French king. Like the duke of Brittany at the same time. Bretons and Normans weren't French though.
 
I know I know, but we're discussing the invasion of England by hot air balloon so at this point we're past being entirely exact in everything :p

I'm from Normandy, I grew up with the story and my mother lives 10 minutes away from the tapestry so don't worry, I know but, ah, you don't fight with another country for a thousand year without taking a quick jab at it from time to time :p
 
He tried to impress the Egyptians once with hot air balloons, but as they had many tales of sorcerers being able to fly they were unimpressed. Especially when it did not work. I imagine it would be somewhat harder for the French if they are floating around in pinatas above Englishmen.
 

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It's Temeraire, like the ship, or His Majesty's dragon in the US I think.

Also the Normans weren't French so not sure how France conquered and subjugated England when it was yet another kind of viking.
Actually, they renamed it His Majesty's Dragon over here as well, because the book spawned a series (named Temeraire, of course) and so they had to give the first book a name.

Very good stuff, actually somewhat plausible AH (well, butterfly nets abound, but the divergences really start to mount up in the books... but there's already some changes, such as that the Incas are still independent! They've got dragons too, see...)
 
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