WI: Napoleon hot air balloon London blitz

What if Napoleon enlarges the balloon corps to an air army and has them drop high explosive bombs daily over London? London would have no air defence and no way to shoot down the balloons.
 
What if Napoleon enlarges the balloon corps to an air army and has them drop high explosive bombs daily over London? London would have no air defence and no way to shoot down the balloons.

??????? Erm, what? How would they even be able to get over London with balloons? Or get them back? Balloons follow the wind.
 
What if Napoleon enlarges the balloon corps to an air army and has them drop high explosive bombs daily over London? London would have no air defence and no way to shoot down the balloons.

Ok, I'll play.

IF somehow Napoleon did manage to get a balloon corps to fly over London, the damage would be small and whatever damage there was would be psychological.

Bombs (of the day) would be not much more than hand grenades. Even the largest possible shell would be extremely small in comparison to the cost of getting it there.

The British would probably laugh it off and be happy that the economy of France was being used to spend more money constructing the fleet compared to damage it would inflict.
 
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