Were there any attempts to stop Napoleon from invading England, aside from divine intervention?
I believe the Battle of Trafalgar, 1805, in which Lord Nelson lost his life destroying the combined French and Spanish fleets was a rather critical, and highly successful attempt to stop Napoleon from invading England. You see, as Adolf Hitler also found out, in 1940, it’s very, very difficult to invade England without a navy, or, if your navy has been largely eliminated by the British, and the British control the seas, as was certainly the case following the Battle of Trafalgar. Large armies simply cannot swim across the English Channel. This fact has proved quite critical to British history, for many centuries now.
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