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Wellington was good at maintaining a force in being. He'd fight defensive battles. Napoleon would be chasing him. How many times need I repeat - the Russian army wintered in the Rheinland and was a week's march away. The Austrians were also thereabouts. Napoleon beats Prussians, loses 10-15% of...

Akshualy ... :) it was the other way around - Casa Savoia (House of Savoy - IIRC an offshot of the Guellfs, same family IIRC as that on the throne of the UK ATM) - ruled Sardinia. LOL! Let us not go overboard (heh - nautical pun!) with such imagery - this is the age of sail and speeds of 8-10...

IMO at this point Napoleon would have no army left. But we will never know :)

Weren't the Russians wintering in Westfalia? And thus close by? IMO everybody was so fed with Napoleon (French populace and elites included) that he gets ground down by the end of the summer. The terms France gets will be worse than in OTL - the borders will no longer be roughly from 1792 but...