Peshawar Lancers Type Event in 1812

The backstory to my SW game is about a world where a comet hit in 1812, similar to the backstory of the S. M. Stirling book The Peshawar Lancers.

Now, I know that the events in my game are totally implausible and ASB, so what the world really look like if comets hit Earth in 1812?
 
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First you have to decide how many comets will hit and how big they are.
Then get a [wall size] world map put it on the floor and drop a handful of change above the place you want the centre of impact.
?Europe or Asia? penny dimes Nickels = various size comets.
http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/impacteffects/

once you have decided what is going to hit and where, Whe can discuss the Impact on History.
 
Well, assuming that the asteroid strikes are analogous to SM Stirling's Peshawar Lancers, I'd imagine that the Napoleonic Wars are going to grind to a halt pretty darn quick.

I could see Spain and Portugual doing fairly well after the former emulates the latter and moves it's government to the New World along with most of it's population. I could also see Britain doing fairly well as well, though not as well as in Sterling's novel. Whatever population they could get out would probably head to either S. Africa or Australia.

Russia would definitely be different tho I don't quite know how.

The real wildcard would be France under Napoleon, I could easily see France Outre-Mer establishing itself much earlier and with much more vigor than in Sterling's work. Perhaps stretching as far as Egypt...
 
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