American Reacts What if Napoleon Invaded Britain?

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[@spartakistmk2557]

1:45 "How did [Nelson] lose an eye? I forget how he lost his eye." - At the siege of Calvi in 1794, during the British invasion of Corsica, Nelson was positioned in a forward artillery battery protected by merlons, one of which was struck by an enemy shot that sprayed stone and sand into his face. The stone splinters gashed his head and tore off part of his right eyebrow, while robbing him of sight in that eye. Strictly speaking, he didn't actually lose the eye itself, as the eyeball was intact; he could distinguish light from darkness with it, but nothing more. For that reason, modern theories lean towards him either suffering a detached retina or a vitreous haemorrhage.

[@winstonpeanutbutter]

As long as Lord Nelson's Navy existed this was straight up not even a possibility.

[@productjoe4069]

Connor, a question I’ve had for a long time is why the US seems to treat George III as to blame for taxes in the thirteen colonies? Taxation was the preserve of parliament, so surely the prime minister of the time (Lord North) would make more sense? Is he well known in the US?

[@pokemata1035]

Lord North is not a known name in the US. We blamed George lll because he was the PERFECT scapegoat. He was a slightly insane aristocrat who (I heard, not 100% sure) thought he was a tree, he was aggressive toward the colonies and very rich. He was the perfect example of "the foreign British aristocrats keeping the disconnected colonies thousands of miles away down"

[@winstonpeanutbutter]

12:50 no enemy soldiers would even be attempting to navigate past the canal by actually swimming through it though, you'd take a bridge + that would potentially spread disease among the English aswell.

[@user-xz6qk9wf9j]

Well done for knowing the Duke of Wellington's name. Most British people don't know it. Just to save people looking it up, it was Arthur Wellesley.

[@LilMonkeyFella87]

I have a very interesting video to do with Napoleon invading Britain you should see. Its about 7 minutes "I Never Knew That About Britain - How a group of Welsh women stopped Napoleon invading Britain"

[@htrland]

To describe men like Lannes, Murat, and Ney, "badass" would be an understatement.

[@Escapee5931]

I'm surprised they didn't include an army coming through the newly-completed Channel Tunnel! (the French did start digging it).

[@maxxie84]

No Napoleon and Hitler had nothing to do with one another, and if anything Napoleon was there before. However, Hitler was obsessed with Napoleon so no doubt he tried to walk into his steps and do the same things he did, but that should only taint Hitler, not Napoleon. Napoleon was only defending himself and France against the whole of Europe that hated that we wanted to be free and live without kings and Queens

[@capablancauk]

Oh dear. Don't believe the British propaganda. The french republic showed a monarch free country could exist. They had to put a monarch back in charge of France so their people wouldn't rise up. Look at the countries that went against him. Seriously France was alone against everyone and only waged war on those that had already started on her. I'm English, most historians who properly study the politics and economics of the period know this. The emperor thing is because he couldn't trust others to help the people. He was beloved by the general public.

[@capablancauk]

@@Rowlph8888 Oh dear you have a very English centred viewpoint. England was built on piracy on the high seas and maintained at the cost of other countries. Some of your points are true but incomplete.

[@Rowlph8888]

@@capablancauk I tried to correct typos and the comment has gone, but everything I said was a fact, and I'm Not Writing It Again except to state that protected freedoms for individuals in law began in 1689 and 1707 in England and gradually spread internationally, covering increasing groups of people.Respected French demographer Emanuel Todd admits this, despite the attempts of the French not to acknowledge the obvious to anyone who can think, as the uprising and beheading of Charles I and bringing in of protected rights happened in England 100 years before France. I don't see how it's incomplete, because the US constitution and political structure was 95% lifted from English law as proven by Kris Anne Hall, constitutional specialist on the genealogy of constitution and all the founding fathers were British. Calling Britain's power inception being through piracy doesn't mean anything, because no one was exercising any legitimacy that could be discussed as moral all those centuries ago - the Spanish and Portuguese states run completely automatically by a small group of aristocrats, like they still were until the late 20th-century, stealing everything from South America and attempting it in Japan were not nations deservingly respect and, legitimate complaints.

[@fullfacility]

At the start of WWII we did build a sort of moat which was filled with petrol/gasoline and which would be set on fire if German troops advanced towards it.

[@stephaniebarker9244]

Went to Waterloo a few weeks ago. That is where Napoleon lost and was exiled.

[@spartakistmk2557]

I get that every alternative history scenario requires a point of divergence, but the stuff at 7:30 is some serious wishful thinking. The failure of the Franco-Spanish fleet to form a cohesive line, and to accurately bombard the oncoming British fleet, was largely down to the years they spent blockaded in port with their crews gaining no practical experience of naval gunnery or seamanship under pressure and under fire. To change that, you pretty much have to change the balance of the entire war at sea to the point where the Battle of Trafalgar wouldn't have happened in the first place. And as for the (slightly) premature death of Nelson sending a "wave of panic" through the rest of the fleet? Nelson didn't just refer to his colleagues and subordinates as a band of brothers because he loved Shakespeare: he knew full well that a commander could die in an instant, and took time to explicitly lay out all his battle plans to fellow admirals and captains in advance, including on the eve of Trafalgar. The band of brothers were also trained to show initiative at all times, and seize opportunities without seeking Nelson's permission; killing him at the start of the battle would therefore have been cutting just one head off the Hydra, and the Franco-Spanish fleet would have had to continue maintaining their cohesion and pinpoint gunnery - that they were, once again, completely ill-equipped for - until several other key British leaders were dead. All in all, a total failure of understanding how the war at sea and the Nelsonic chain of command worked, which doesn't exactly bode well for the rest of the video.

[@williambranch4283]

In video games, if Nelson is isolated to the Med ... invading Britain is a lot easier than invading Russia ;-)

[@johnp8131]

Surely the narrator must be a robot? I have never heard so many names mispronounced, English, Irish and French.

[@philipm06]

Old Nap wouldn't have got half way over the Channel. As it was he spent his last days with Betsy in St. Helena.

[@InquisitiveBaldMan]

Dungeness (the bit that sticks out near hastings) is inextricably linked to military interests. The Royal military canal surrounds it, descirbed here, Phoenix caissons sit in the water off the cost from the mulberry harbours and random houses in it are old PLUTO pumping staions from the underwater fuel lines. There is a nuclear power station which will produce depeleted urnaium for heavy shells and the military canal is lined with old castles. There are still two military encampments on it today in Lydd camp and Hythe ranges ready incase the current EU Empire invades.

[@JoeeyTheeKangaroo]

Napoleon would have had to fight a lot of very angry British people with no way of retreating. We know the terrain a lot better.

[@jasonshenton7680]

NO! The Frogs would never make it.

[@dianepreece7518]

Watch all the black adder series then the best of the bunch only fools and horses, the vicar of dibley and the royle family!

[@Michael.Talbot]

Napoleon was to smart to even try this nonsense it could of lost him continental Europe and become a black hole. Also i am not sure if the Irish would welcome a new French Emperor.

[@Aubury]

Invasion yes but not by sea

[@olivierdk2]

29:04 Nope, it was not.

[@FabriceLEQUEUX]

TO SALE LA LOUISIANE

[@charlesfrancis6894]

Interesting scenario but as usual there are many 100s of possible scenarios so this scenario is only one possibility of many. Scotland's part is just one of those hundreds of scenarios . These possible scenarios are missing thousands of other scenarios not even mentioned here.

[@mikefraser4513]

Our French would have been better. (and our food).

[@charlesfrancis6894]

Yes history can and does repeat itself .

[@togerboy5396]

What he doesn’t mention is where the organisations in London would go. They had clear plans to flee to Canada if ever Britain fell. Here, the monarchy could watch and wait for Napoleon to make a slip and lose his grip on power and when that happens the British Empire could recapture Britain. Britain’s colonies would never be handed to Napoleon but rather move headquarters to Ottawa. France didn’t have the global reach of a colonial power such that Portugal and Britain did. America wouldn’t have tried to conquer Canada or other British possessions even if Britain was severely weakened because they were isolationist, choosing to expand into non-European controlled lands. Even if Napoleon did conquer all of Europe, Britain could make alliances with the other Indian rulers, which in our timeline ended up falling to Britain, the Empire of Portugal, who had their American territory of Brazil to move to if ever Portugal fell, or even the Empire of Japan. The Ottomans and Persians were unlikely to form an alliance with Britain unless Napoleon showed signs of wanting to invade them. Britain’s primary move would just be to wait for the dust to settle, not to surrender to the Fr*nch 🤮 he clearly underestimates our hatred.

[@OllyO-gt8pg]

a french dream lol.

[@fabs8498]

No. How many battles against french in England ?

[@JJ-of1ir]

No, you are not mad to think there are similarities between the wars of Napoleon and the Nazi's. I agree with you. Fascinating as this video is Napoleon would not be able to 'free' the people of England. The people of England were already 'free' people. Their freedom provided a template for Europe and most of the world. So bad luck Napoleon, the people would have fought like crazy to keep it. IMO SUGGESTION: The True History of Freedom Never Taught in Schools: Thomas Sowell

[@elizabethmcintyre8529]

Doesn't matter we won

[@viewer.123]

Matters enough for you to make a comment

[@elizabethmcintyre8529]

@@viewer.123 aloud to answer like anyone else on here nothing wrong with that ok

[@Michael.Talbot]

@@viewer.123 Who are you the fake history referee lol, I bet your also the grammar police

[@viewer.123]

@@elizabethmcintyre8529 Some folk can't take a joke 😂

[@elizabethmcintyre8529]

You a Can stay of my back just having my say like all of you ok

[@rosaliegolding5549]

CONNER 🙏CAN YOU PLEASE PLEASE USE ENGLISH VIDEO’S TO NARRATE THE NAME PLACES ETC ARE JUST “ NOT CRICKET “ AS WE SAY IT GRATES MY TEETH LISTENING TO THEM ,PLUS WE ARE IN TUNE WITH OUR HISTORY MUCH BETTER EG DAN SNOW , DAVID STARKEY THERE ARE SO MANY OF THEM THAN THIS AMERICAN WHO IS TRULY TOO LAZY TO DO HIS HOMEWORK OF NAME PLACES AND SURNAMES ETC PRONUNCIATIONS EVEN THE SHIRE IS MISPRONOUNCED AND THE FRENCH ONES HE BUTCHERS 😔🤗JUST SAYING 🤷‍♀️

[@sungi7814]

There are even more similarities between Napoleonic Frace and Germany. Until the second world war Napoleon was always the example for the worst human being by many.

[@johngodsall1609]

In 1805-6 Scotland was aa solid part of the UK. However this theory overlooks the fact that the Royal Navy was big enough to sink the French transports, and the French navy was too weak and ineffective to force the issue. So without Trafalgar the Royal Navy would still have stopped him.

[@AgeCobra]

there would be a bunch of fringe loyalist in Northern England get oranized to retake when the time is right.

[@user-xz6qk9wf9j]

Napoleon and Hitler were very similar, obviously without the concentration camps. Both were dictators. Britain was the most benign Empire in history, it tried to bring enlightenment, trade and rule of law wherever it went. It wasn't about stealing from its Empire, it was about trading with it. I guess it's similar to the European Union, free trade within the block, but each country having a large degree of autonomy with law and order, freedom of religion and language.

[@slavicandroid1999]

look, i get it, its hard to accept that your home country was a monster, they were only benign to their own settlers, but they literally spent decades stealing native children from their families and taking them to reeducation camps, only to then burry them in unmarked mass graves, tested chemical weapons on the indian population and robbed every valuable that wasnt nailed down (and that was just the 20th century)

[@stephenpadfield5295]

For a channel that prides its self on research why couldn't you have researched how to pronounce both place names and person names correctly makes the whole thing a Joke!

[@Showboat69]

Yeah so at the same time we were. Putting money into India uprising and a small colony in merica…. Not bad for a small island

[@benj597]

Napoleon , the French ,Spanish all got their ass handed to them on a plate ...F around and find out !

[@tibsky1396]

With the first fleet in the world vs a fleet weakened by the Revolution, it was not an achievement, but the least of things.

[@billyo54]

Hi Connor. You're already pretty hopeless at real history. Why complicate matters by introducing imaginary history. 😂