Maybe he would demand to be ransomed for a ridiculous sum of money and read them his poetry to live up to his role model?
In all seriousness, though, he wouldn't even be a footnote. Europe would go on without any repercussions from the Napoleonic wars. Anyone's guess from there.
Well he did always admire Julius Caesar.
well to follow this point. he would probably get ransomed and as implied come back and hunt down the pirates and give them a gruesome death. Pity in a way Napoleon converting to Islam and leading an Islamic Revival would be an interesting AH.
It will be one or the other Napoleon was not so wedded to Christian piety, or immutable principle that he would stay a galley slave and fail to adapt to circumstance like other former captives.
Yes, that would be indeed an interesting timeline. Maybe after a brief time as a slave, he converts and finally becomes aleading figure himslf. Finally adapts the title of a Bey. Maybe he becomes one of the Barabary figures, who negotitates with Thomas Jefferson.
There's a parallel scenario in Edward Atiyah's The Eagle Flies From England.
Napoleon's parents go to England in 1769, he attracts the King's attention, and after a successful army career is made Viceroy of India. He falls out with the government, rebels, conquers the Ottoman Empire, and ends up marching on Moscow, failing, and winding up - on St Helena!
Obviously he leads the Algerians on an Egyptian campaign instead.He converts to Islam and reconquers Grenada?![]()