User blog comment:Arstarpool/R.I.P. 1983: Doomsday/@comment-461469-20100719153854

OK: but does the French Revolution still happen? Then some other General, maybe Michel Ney would try to seize power, making the Neyolian Wars. their was an enormous vacuum of power in the so called "First Republic", and a strong figure would have to fill in the space. And this would mean they would still have to fight against Britain.