Nelson Lives.

Tin time.

This must have been asked before, but anyway I'll ask again.

Lets say Lord Nelson still get's shot at Trafalgar but does not die. He's out of action so the battle still goes more or less the same way, with a RN win. After some time getting well what does he do in 1806 and after? As the French don't really have much of a navy left does he leave the RN? If there still is a war with the US in 1812 does he fight?

As always, over to you.
 
Tin time.

This must have been asked before, but anyway I'll ask again.

Lets say Lord Nelson still get's shot at Trafalgar but does not die. He's out of action so the battle still goes more or less the same way, with a RN win. After some time getting well what does he do in 1806 and after? As the French don't really have much of a navy left does he leave the RN? If there still is a war with the US in 1812 does he fight?

As always, over to you.

That's really interesting. OTL, it was kinda convenient for everyone that Nelson died as he did.
 
Nelson was an invetret self-publicist so he would have milked the victory for all it was worth.

He would have become an Admiral and would have had a major role in running the Navy (who would question the Vicor of Trafalger) and oddly enough I feel would have not been given as much national recognition as he received in death (no Nelson's column etc.).

I can see him entering polotics (can you imagin a government run by Wellington and Nelson).

IF he did survive he would be a better ambassidor at Vienna then Wellington (who may go to AMerican for the conculsion of the 1812 war instead), so what would happen at Waterloo I have no idea.
 
Nelson was an invetret self-publicist so he would have milked the victory for all it was worth.

He would have become an Admiral and would have had a major role in running the Navy (who would question the Vicor of Trafalger) and oddly enough I feel would have not been given as much national recognition as he received in death (no Nelson's column etc.).

I can see him entering polotics (can you imagin a government run by Wellington and Nelson).

IF he did survive he would be a better ambassidor at Vienna then Wellington (who may go to AMerican for the conculsion of the 1812 war instead), so what would happen at Waterloo I have no idea.

It's highly unlikely that Nelson, even with more time on his hands could eclipse Wellington in 1815. Wellington will have had an unbroken string of victories since 1807 whilst Trafalgar was the last battle at sea of any consequence and was a decade old by 1815.

Plus Nelson was not regarded as "reliable" by the political establishment of his time.
 
People remember his failures at Cartagena and such more than OTL, rather than it all being blocked out by dying at the moment of his greatest triumph.
 
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