PC/WI: Napoleon Conquers the Ottoman Empire

The Middle East won't be conquered. Nappy does not have the Navy to cross the Bosporus while the Royal Navy can block him. It is the Balkans, and Balkans alone.
Bosporus is 30 km long, 700 m at the narrowest and under 4 km for the whole 30 km. Try to sail up Bosporus with broadsides to Napoleon´s guns along the tops of the bluff? Tricky in 1453, and hard with the shore guns of 1799. And with several km of Bosporus that is too hot for Royal Navy to enter, small boats and ferries can shuttle over that section of Bosporus.
If Napoleon takes Acre, would he turn east to India? Or west to go home through Anatolia, Constantinople and Vienna?
 
The Middle East won't be conquered. Nappy does not have the Navy to cross the Bosporus while the Royal Navy can block him. It is the Balkans, and Balkans alone.

And this brings an important question about who is being friendly with whom against whom. Are we talking the Brits, Russians and Ottomans against Nappy or Nappy and the Russians against the Brits and Ottomans? Scenarios are completely different.

As far as Bosporus is involved, I’d say that there is a much greater chance of the Russian naval presence then of the British but it is anybody’s guess if the whole idea is practical taking into an account that this strait is rather narrow (ditto for Dardanelles). However, placing enough troops and artillery on the Asiatic coast would make crossing problematic. Of course in the case of Nappy + Alexander this would not be the case (in the terms of the necessity) because Russians would be advancing on the Caucasus and, if necessary, their Black Sea fleet could support landings on the Anatolian coast.

In the case of Nappy against everybody the whole campaign becomes quite tricky if it goes beyond Greece, Serbia, Albania , Istanbul area.
 
Bosporus is 30 km long, 700 m at the narrowest and under 4 km for the whole 30 km. Try to sail up Bosporus with broadsides to Napoleon´s guns along the tops of the bluff? Tricky in 1453, and hard with the shore guns of 1799. And with several km of Bosporus that is too hot for Royal Navy to enter, small boats and ferries can shuttle over that section of Bosporus.
If Napoleon takes Acre, would he turn east to India? Or west to go home through Anatolia, Constantinople and Vienna?

Nappy wanted to go to India. But either way, any chance would result in a disaster for Nappy. Marching home or to India from such a long distance is bound to fail. Either to hostile natives or the casualties making the campaign more and more pointless.
 

kernals12

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Nappy wanted to go to India. But either way, any chance would result in a disaster for Nappy. Marching home or to India from such a long distance is bound to fail. Either to hostile natives or the casualties making the campaign more and more pointless.
He managed to conquer Egypt briefly in 1798 before an attempted invasion of Syria failed. If at first you don't succeed...
 
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