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Originally Posted by patchwork
You'd need something earlier to explain why and how the British took a Stuart back....even if they win at sea and sack London, the French don't have the will or manpower to occupy Britain, and an occupation is what it would take. Particularly since the Netherlands would have a record-scratch moment at the notion of a Stuart restoration and abruptly switch sides. Independence for Ireland (with Charlie ruling it?) is probably all that can be achieved. The Hanoverians simply haven't had time to become a national embarrassment yet, while what little most people remember about the Stuarts is....not positive. It still leaves a Britain too bankrupt to finance endless coalitions against revolutionary France, though. I wonder if this doesn't become one of the Bonapartes.....
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Looked into the Scottish situation here. It looks like it is indeed a few years too late a revival of the Jacobite cause. Now, if you make the turning point keeping THAT alive rather than (or in addition to) better military coordination you might get a decapitated England. You won't get a Stuart on the throne, but you will have a much worse military position, and it will be just england and wales.
This whole line of thinking does end up looking like a bonaparte though.