WI Napoleon lives to be 100?

Wouldn't Napoleon's military advices be badly outdated?
That would assume he wouldn't be keeping up with the latest military developments. Stuck on an island with only guards for company, I could imagine him plotting out elaborate wargames with the latest developments and conflicts for his own amusement if nothing else.

"No no no McClellan, this is how you invade Virginia..."
 
Napoleon Bonaparte died on St. Helena in 1821 at the age of 51. What if he had lived until 1870? How would his being around effect the many French revolutions, uprisings, and changes in government in that period? Would the British ever have allowed him to leave? What are the odds he ends up ruling France again?
He would be a French Provo Wallis.
 
Napoleon Bonaparte died on St. Helena in 1821 at the age of 51. What if he had lived until 1870? How would his being around effect the many French revolutions, uprisings, and changes in government in that period? Would the British ever have allowed him to leave? What are the odds he ends up ruling France again?

I expect a growing cult of Napoléon, even in England. The lone man against the world, now defying time... After some decades, public opinion should welcome his coming back to France.
 
Wouldn't Napoleon's military advices be badly outdated?
I that a lot of the military academies took the battles from two decades of war in Europe and gave them a special place in their ciriculum. I believe that the American Civil War was considered the first modern war, but that it started out with Napoleonic tactics. Not from him specifically, but just in general since rifles and artillery had been on the rise when Nappy was, and his name was attached to the era and all within it.

I will assume that Napoleon will have good health here? None of that mercury poisoning from the wall paper, the stomach problems he had in some battles, the gout he might get, etc? Almost a shame he went and made himself an emperor in this timeline. If he kept with things as a Republic he might have done well doing a tour of Latin America. Although there would be the butterflies of the Bourbon Spanish monarchy being delegitimized by kowtowing to then be replaced by the Bonapartes.
 
I expect a growing cult of Napoléon, even in England. The lone man against the world, now defying time... After some decades, public opinion should welcome his coming back to France.
I wonder if by that time age will have him hunching enough that people think he genuinely was short, even if not a midget.
 
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