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Napoleon's planned invasion of the United Kingdom

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This plan was typical of Napoleon in its dash and reliance on fast movement and surprise, but such a style was more suited to land than to sea warfare, with the vagaries of tide and wind and the effective British blockade making it ever more impractical and unlikely to succeed as time passed. Only
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Port facilities at Boulogne were improved (even though its tides made it unsuitable for such a role) and forts built, whilst the discontent and boredom that often threatened to overflow among the waiting troops was allayed by constant training and frequent ceremonial visits by Napoleon himself
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were built along the English coast to counter the invasion threat, and militias were raised. In the areas closest to France, new fortifications were built, and existing ones previously built to guard against the 1779 invasion were completed or improved.
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the Toulon force eventually broke out (on 29 March 1805) and, though it managed to cross the Atlantic, it did not find the Brest fleet at the rendezvous and so sailed back to Europe alone, where it was met by the force blockading
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erected at Boulogne to celebrate the invasion's anticipated success. However, when Napoleon ordered a large-scale test of the invasion craft despite choppy weather and against the advice of his naval commanders such as Admiral
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Though the fleet-test was unsuccessful, Britain continued to be on high alert with defences from invasion. With the flotilla and encampment at Boulogne visible from the south coast of England,
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was also carried out in October 1804, and British fleets continued to blockade the French and Spanish fleets that would be needed to maintain naval superiority long enough for a crossing.
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had remained in the Channel, take control of the Channel, and defend and transport the invasion force, all before the pursuing fleets could return to stop them.
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as an air service chief, though she said the proposed aerial invasion would fail because of the winds. (France's first military balloon had been used in 1794 by
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were constructed (with a Grand Shaft to deploy its troops from its hilltop site to sea level rapidly should there be a landing), and the
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It is attributed to him in a statement by him to the House of Lords, though there is no definite evidence he actually said it.
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Napoleon distributing the first Imperial LĂ©gion d'honneur at the Boulogne camps, on August 16, 1804
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Caricature of a "Gentle Salute" from the British Lion, knocking Napoleon's hat off (circa 1803)
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Before the flotilla could cross, however, Napoleon had to gain naval control of the
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The National Flotilla is also called the "Boulogne flotilla" in some sources (
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Today, the Boulogne camp's site is marked by a 53 metres (174 ft) high
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Franco–Spanish fleets break out from the British blockade (led at Brest by
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of 1803, whereby France ceded her huge North American territories to the
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Subsequent destruction of most of the Franco-Spanish fleet during the
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was cut to impede Napoleon's progress into England should he land on
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to his troops and surrounded by railings decorated with the golden
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Napoleon also seriously considered using a fleet of troop-carrying
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Anti-Napoleon Caricature and Propaganda in England 1798–1803
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Western Heights – Heritage factsheet – White Cliffs Country
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coast in 1798, but an invasion of England was sidelined by
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From 1803 to 1805 a new army of 200,000 men, known as the
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in 1803, to create an indigenous part of his 20,000-man
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and had it break camp and march eastwards to begin the
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French intervention during the Irish Rebellion of 1798
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as part of his proposed invasion force, and appointed
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in March 1805. The part of the flotilla built by the
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Cartoon on the invasion, showing a tunnel under the
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Index

Napoleon's invasion of England
War of the Third Coalition

English Channel
Grande Armée
blocked
Trafalgar campaign
France
Batavian Republic
Spain
United Kingdom
Napoleon I
Étienne Bruix
Pierre Villeneuve
Honoré Ganteaume
Carel Hendrik Ver Huell
George III
Horatio Nelson
Robert Calder
Cuthbert Collingwood
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War of the Third Coalition
Bavaria
Ulm campaign
Donauwörth
Wertingen
GĂĽnzburg
Haslach-Jungingen

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