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Napoleon’s Outrageous Plan to Invade England
A plan of attack overly ambitious for its time
The British Isles have historically been hard to invade. Very few nations have managed to successfully invade the island nation, even so, most of these successful invasion attempts happened before England became the naval superpower we commonly know. Napoleon was not phased by these factors and thus went ahead and prepared an ambitious plan to do what no other French leader could do. Successfully invade and take over the British Isles.
War of the Third Coalition
The War of the Third Coalition was a conflict involving most of the large powers in Europe. One alliance consisted of France, Spain and three Holy Roman Empire breakaway states. The countries opposing this alliance were the United Kingdom, the Holy Roman Empire, Russia and Sweden as the main belligerents.
A French victory was secured in the conflict through the use of Napoleon’s military genius leading to the expansion of the First French Empire through both puppet states and territorial concenssions from the Holy Roman Empire and the states it controlled.
