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What if the Prince Imperial had followed up his formal training at Woolwich with entering a career as an artillery officer in the British Army?

He seems to have had the skills and training and it meshes well with his Great Uncle's career.

He would then not have been killed by Zulus in South Africa. Could he have had a later role in France? One could also imagine British Colonel Bonaparte in the South African War or British General Bonaparte arriving in France with the BEF?

IIRC his Great Uncle's father wanted young Napoleon to join the Royal Navy, being an anti-French pro-British Corsican nationalist.
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