Surviving Napoleonic France = huge British empire?

During the Napoleonic Wars, Britain took pretty much all of France and Holland's colonies from the Caribbean to the Malay archipelago, but gave a lot back. If Napoleon survives in France, say by avoiding putting his brother in Spain, does that mean Britain holds onto all of them? With such naval supremacy, what happens to Latin America?
 
Latin America depends on what sort of Spain, if it's a French aligned puppet with a Bourbon on the throne then the RN is still going to help them to independence. If it's British aligned then the RN will stay out but I suspect the winds of change are probably unstoppable, at least in Mexico and the Southern Cone.
 
Latin America depends on what sort of Spain, if it's a French aligned puppet with a Bourbon on the throne then the RN is still going to help them to independence. If it's British aligned then the RN will stay out but I suspect the winds of change are probably unstoppable, at least in Mexico and the Southern Cone.

I don't know why people underrate Bourbon patriotism. In OTL there were British-backed independence movements in the 1790s; they failed miserably (witness Miranda [1]).

Many people wanted reform in Latin America, in Spain as well as the New World. But there were also plenty of people who didn't want to gain independence just to be British economic satellites.

As to the empire as a whole? Quite possibly. I wonder if the Empire would be much more planned and rationalized than OTL, if it spent most of the 19th century facing a great power across the Channel.


[1] Whose belief in a society ruled by law and respect for constitutional freedoms led to the notion of "Miranda rights."[2]

[2] Sorry, I'm silly.
 
Was Bourbon patriotism universal throughout Spanish America? I can imagine a Peru through Mexico core being more aligned to the regime, with places like Argentina more interested in independence.
 
In OTL, the viceroyalty of Peru was THE foremost cause that independence was pushed back by 2-3 decades. They intervened not once or twice, but several times against independent movements in all of Spanish South America.

Mexico too was heavily loyal until the later years of the Napoleonic wars.
 
I'm guessing that the combination of Napoleon in Europe and a huge empire abroad might make the British become even more detached from the continent?

It was a long time before France successfully got back into the colonisation game in our timeline (North Africa apart). I guess it could be even longer here.
 
I don't know if I'd agree that France will stay out of the game. The Napoleonic Empire was very aggressive in pursuing colonies; it just couldn't, because the British were too powerful. If it gets a chance, it will expand.
 
Hmm. How about the colonies of the Netherlands? The Batavian Republic was essentially a puppet state, but it could become independent, I think it's quite likely it will in fact. Britain could attempt to get them more on their side through giving back their colonies.
 
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