User blog comment:BlackSkyEmpire/Disscusion: How Napoleon Could Have Won/@comment-2076280-20101229194614

I'm going to assume this is an open question...

Instead of invading Russia by marching directly to Moscow, he could have followed a Hitler-esque invasion strategy. Divide his Grand Armee into three parts. One army would march north through the Baltic states (where he may have some popular support) towards St. Petersburg. A second army marches east to Smolensk. A third army marches east to Kiev. All the target cities would have fallen, which would force the Czar to flee to Moscow. Then during the next year, his armies converge on Moscow. As a result, Russia falls.

Following the fall of Russia, Great Britain would be forced to sue for peace. Sweden would switch sides and launch an invasion of Finland and Karelia to reclaim their lost territories. The Ottoman Empire would come to a cacus belli antibellum with France and then use the opportunity to capture Crimea, the Russian Caucasus, and most of the Russian Black Sea coast.