What if Napoleon won the Battle of Waterloo?

If you think that if Napoleon Bonaparte won at Waterloo, nothing would have changed, you would be very wrong! As a spoiler to what is going to happen in this video, Italy might not get unified in the near future, with France maybe even becoming communist in 1871.

Going back to Napoleon Bonaparte, in the war of the Seventh Coalition, or the Hundred Days, it would still see Napoleon be defeated eventually, just not at Waterloo. Let me show you how if Napoleon Bonaparte had won at the Battle of Waterloo, how France would be in a worse position that it was in our timeline.

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[danielsantiagourtado]

The war would have likely still been lost but he would have gone out with a victory.

[bbdanny]

the Piedmontese-French border is the Vichy-Iitalian ww2 border, which is different from how the border looked in actuality

[joaquimmello]

It'd be cool, but even if he didnt lose a single man, he wouldnt be able to defend the spanish, german, and italian front, as he wouldnt be everywhere at the same time, plus the british navy would keep their blockade and maybe naval invade brittany, to make the war faster and even occupy mainland french lands

[greeneanimations]

Great video! I like how you get straight to the alternate history, unlike other creators. I’m not going to do the realism thing, cuz I don’t know the specific stuff. Once again, great work!

[Predanator]

Well, you stopped while it git really interesting. Would have love to see an alternate WW1

[katanabluejay]

I think this scenario started off pretty realistic (7 - 8), but then became kinda unrealistic by the end (4 - 5).

examples of how unrealistic the numbers mean could also be good, because a "6" could mean a different amount of realism from person to person.

For example if a 1 is Aliens landing in 1913 and a 10 is Franz Ferdinand surviving assassination, what would a 5 be?

[IrisWasTaken]

What if Napoleon lost the battle of Waterloo?

[JoboGamezzz]

Isn’t odd that the main reason Italy unified when it did was mostly because of foreign help from napoleon the third and Bismarck and even in those wars were mostly carried against the Austrians which are usually them selves being carried

[rokball]

Oh my God! This ending is even worse than I thought…

[JustJ_KK]

An upload when I’m out of school less goo I’ll try to Watch it if I can

[Epikcdk]

Bro by 2:00 he went unhinged on England and Bulgaria

[tpalmer]

Id say this video was a 5ish like many of your videos, though i personally think maybe it could of just been "what if napoleon the third never came to power" but still love your videos man!

[SS_Atlantic_Greyhound]

For Napoleon to win Waterloo, he was going to need to organise his army and have a more effective chief of staff to relay orders and properly execute them with efficiency. Worse for Napoleon was the fact France had already be drained from the previous coalition wars, and this seventh one would leave him with hardly any resources left to try and fight for France with.

For a victory at Waterloo to be possible, Napoleon would need some serious luck on his side, plus the talents of his Marshall Louis-Alexandre Berthier, who had served as his chief of Staff since as far back as his Italian Campaign and served with him until Napoleon's abdication in 1814.

Now he alone wouldn't ensure Napoleon wins, but his part would allow for a more effective Grande Armee to face off against Wellington and likely prevent Marshall Grouchy from being unable to come to Napoleon's aide as what had happened in the OTL.

Napoleon would likely have captured Brussels and forced Britain and Prussia to withdraw and resemble their forces, whilst Napoleon's remaining Marshalls would defend France's Frontiers. A victory might boost moral and keep Napoleon on the throne for a couple more weeks or months, but I think the man himself had lost his spark by the time of Waterloo. Exhausted from so many years of war, loss of friends and allies who had died or turned their back on him, the death of his wife Josephine, and stress of defending France this second time would leave the man in a poor state to prosecute this new war.

[wheatyes]

The communist France idea is fun but Prussia helped suppress the Paris Commune, and wouldn't support them. However, I do believe that fun overlords over realism in alternate history (unless it's beyond stupid. The only time I am okay with beyond stupid is when it's embraced, like in the Monarco video)

[santiagobanosflores]

I find it amazing how you have all these coins

[Moyoutuber]

I kinda wonder how this would change the cold war if it even happens in the 1st place

[randomguy]

if Napoleon won realistically he'd need many more big victories so personally dunno why its so guaranteed to people that theyd win it all if they won there, however guessing from the videos picture you agree to this but believe theyd become communist due to this

I dunno about that either, I believe the victory at waterloo would lead to Napoleon getting a peace and then going to war again and again until he actually loses or just getting victories until he dies.

[Alaska_Protogen]

i would love to see a "what if the battle of quebec (December 31, 1775) was an american victory"

[mappingshaman]

You cannot convince me that living in Bulgaria is worse than living in knifeacidistan formerly known as London.

[davidecatena]

Realism:4 because it's absurd that Italy doesn't unite because Napoleon III doesn't take power, historically his help was useful, but even without him, Italy would probably have united thanks to the Roman Republic, which France would not have repressed in this timeline