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This is different from Pax Francia as it starts in 1804.

Note: In this timeline, Vice Admiral Latouche Treville does not get ill, and does not die in 1804. He is well and alive.



"All hail Napoleon the First! Vive l'empereur!" the people of France chant. December 2, 1804. Napoleon is crowned as Emperor of the French. The new emperor has plans to execute. It is the beginning of the War of the Third Coalition. His adversaries are Imperial Russia, the British Empire, and Austria, for the most part. Napoleon has useful allies: the French satellite of the Batavian Republic, and Spain. Napoleonic Italy is serving as a buffer to Austrian interests in Italy and is constantly under threat of attack.

Emperor Napoleon has assembled an army, The Army of the Ocean Coasts. Napoleon has approximately 200,000 men under his command. He decides that this army will be used for the Invasion of Great Britain. Under the Emperor's orders, Vice Admiral Latouche Treville is sent to the English Channel to overcome the Royal Navy in order for the Invasion of Britain to take place. Latouche sails with 29 SoTLs (ships of the line) from the port of Auray.

Napoleon has a huge army ready to invade Britain, but he decides that the Austrian/Russian threat to the eastern French borders is too imminent when the Third Coalition declares war on him and he moves his Army of the Ocean Coasts to the east. With that, 200,000 men are ready to defend the easternmost borders of France.

In the United Kingdom, everyone is anxious of a French invasion. The British decide to buff up naval activity in the Channel. They constantly wait, day by day, for a French fleet to show up, but for weeks and weeks nothing happens. Over in Austria, Holy Roman Emperor Francis II starts to prepare an invasion force to beat back the French scoundrels. Tsar Alexander the First in Russia does the same. Altogether, Austrian forces number 96,500. Russian forces number 89,000. The Russians make the trek to the west to meet up with the Austrians. Austrian forces wait near Vienna for their allies. The Batavian Republic, a French puppet, sends several thousand trained men to France to bolster Napoleon's army. Spain rallies their own army, numbering up to 74,000 men. The Spanish prepare to embark to Naples to reclaim their old colony, the Kingdom of Naples, which is helping the Coalition.
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