This will be a alternate history scenario in 2024

@evenlord7825

5 ай бұрын

I will look forward to it

@michelguevara151

5 ай бұрын

merci pour le téléchargement, m'sieur!

@average_commenter1

5 ай бұрын

Let’s goo

@lunathedungeonmaster4720

5 ай бұрын

Excellent :)

@Ihatebritain

5 ай бұрын

LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOOO

Guess he was napoleon dynamite

@6000.

5 ай бұрын

What must Hilter dynamite be?

@YaBoiBaxter2024

5 ай бұрын

Napoleon be like: *"I am the Dynamite."*

@nealdalton1576

5 ай бұрын

A bum tiss

@elgameocammando8185

5 ай бұрын

Nice

@KomodoMagic

5 ай бұрын

Hahaha

If this plot had succeeded he would no longer be Napoleon Bonaparte. He would be Napoleon Blownapart.

@brianstasko4293

5 ай бұрын

lol

@joca6497

5 ай бұрын

that's actually really funny

@Chronometry707

5 ай бұрын

Booooo.

@fatihnri2484

5 ай бұрын

Goddamnit.

@The_whales

5 ай бұрын

Aha they came to a sticky end didn’t they? Thats a bomb joke

Double scenario: What if this bomb had killed Napoleon but the bomb that killed Tsar Alexander II missed?

@theshenpartei

5 ай бұрын

Butterfly effect time

@HagitOfek

5 ай бұрын

I Whold loved that

@MilnaAlen

5 ай бұрын

Or Grand Duke Sergei Aleksandrovich? It's a bit more obscure and uncertain tbf. But his wife became a nun after the assassination. Later she saved Felix Yusupov from suicidal depression by directing him to charity, after his brother's death. Who knows, if Sergei hadn't been assasinated, maybe Rasputin wouldn't have either.

@Fordo007

5 ай бұрын

On top of that I’d love to see a scenario where Alexander II and Abraham Lincoln both survived and how that would affect US-Russo Relations going forward. Imagine their close relationship and partnership fostering a ‘special’ relationship with Russia rather than England.

@warweasel2832

5 ай бұрын

He was born after the Napoleonic Wars. It's safe to say nothing of that sort would've occurred in the first place, and Tsar Alexander II (as we know him) couldn't have even existed. Now, a more apt one might be "What if Paul I's assassination failed?"

“Napoleon, being the stud that he was, decided to leave without her.” The Ridley Scott mind cannot comprehend this.

@balabanasireti

5 ай бұрын

Please stop comparing every Napoleon video with the movie. Thanks

@Longshanks1690

5 ай бұрын

@@balabanasireti When you start wanting to compare Scott’s Napoleon to the real one, you will never stop wanting it.

@Guardias

5 ай бұрын

@@balabanasireti No? That abomination of a movie should be dragged at every chance.

@SeruraRenge11

5 ай бұрын

@@Guardias I don't know what people expected, for a Brit to make a movie about Napoleon and NOT have it be a hit piece smearing him the whole time?

@evenlord7825

5 ай бұрын

@balabanasireti it is necessary and needed to compare how much Ridley Scott slandered Napoleon

Probably the first documented case where a drunk driving actually saved a life for a change

@beans00001

5 ай бұрын

Drunk driving doesn’t cause problems, drunk crashers do

@Reboobed

5 ай бұрын

@@beans00001 Based booze cruiser enthusiast

@joshuahunt3032

5 ай бұрын

And I’m guessing the only case where drunk driving saved a life.

@cloudperson7377

5 ай бұрын

Well Horses can drive themselves

@chardude36m12

5 ай бұрын

It already saved my life

I can already imagine the alternate timeline where someone writes alternate history stories about how Napoleon, that First Consul that got blown up on Christmas Eve, would totally have been able to make himself emperor and bring most of Europe to heel if only he didn't die, and everyone telling the author off for making unrealistic assumptions in him avoiding the assassination by his carriage driver being drunk that night. It really makes you think.

@kingbooomer9231

5 ай бұрын

Shut up you don't know if Harry Turtledove is in the comment section looking for topic ideas, Cody would have to force himself to read it!

@richardarriaga6271

5 ай бұрын

​@@kingbooomer9231Wierdo from Corsica making himself king? Next thing you know some actor named Ronald Reagan will be elected President!

@VerilyViscous

5 ай бұрын

Damn Napolaboos with their crazy stories.

@flaggy185

5 ай бұрын

In Kaiserreich there is something really similar, where someone (i don't remember it's name) publishes a book called "Our finest hour", where basically is what if Germany lost the WW1 But is actually really different to how it normally went, so, who knows

@ZMGian

4 ай бұрын

​@@flaggy185It's Winston churchill who became a writer in that timeline And the funniest part is they made a separate mod based on that Kaiserreich event, its called Führerreich

I’m actually kinda glad the teenage French girl isn’t forgotten about. In history, it’s oft the leaders, the nations & the battles that are remembered, no one really remembers the servants of the leaders, the workers of the nations or the soldiers of the battles. I smile that this poor girl is remembered.

@Anzehlm

5 ай бұрын

You say that, but her name was not mentioned once.

@haberak3310

5 ай бұрын

@@Anzehlm The fact she's remembered at all is a huge step up from what's normally seen

@zigzag338

5 ай бұрын

For anyone curious - her name was Marianne Peusol and she was 14 years old

@livethefuture2492

5 ай бұрын

There were a lot of young French girls in Paris...but one grain of sand in an endless desert of bodies. It's remarkable we even know about it.

@TheDethBringer666

5 ай бұрын

@@Anzehlm Names are forgotten, deeds are forever.

You see, Napoleons driver was part of the drunk driver community, not drunk crasher community.

Imagine how different the world would be if they succeeded. Considering how pivotal napoleon was during the era (for obvious reasons). So much would be different.

@route2070

5 ай бұрын

I'm curious if the world wars would have happened.

@Longshanks1690

5 ай бұрын

It’s also not just “what if he never rose to power?” By this point, he’s already solidified the Republic, won major victories for France and made a name for himself as a de facto autocrat. He hasn’t yet reached his zenith, but he’s clearly on his way there. The France he left behind would be in shambles but not at the point where it would be incapable of recovering like the early days of the Revolution. Especially since it was royalists who masterminded the plot, Napoleon likely goes down in history as a martyr for the Republican cause - a selfless hero who tried to save and lead France before being unjustly killed. The chances of any Bourbon restoration are extremely small in this timeline.

@Spoonishpls

5 ай бұрын

We would instead be making alternative history videos about what would happen if Napoleon survived, obviously

@DeSlagen8

5 ай бұрын

A huge domino effect would’ve happened. Life wouldn’t be the same, you wouldn’t exist.

@Bob-lr2xp

5 ай бұрын

​@@route2070Highly unlikely, at least not with the players we know. Napoleon reorganized the German lands into the Confederacy of the Rhine in 1806, turning the Holy Roman Empire into a more structured nation state. Napoleon and later Otto Von Bismark built the Germany we know today.

Somewhere in the British archives, there's a wealth of meme-y treasures about the shenanigans they got up to trying to kill Napoléon, Castro v CIA style.

@louisduarte8763

5 ай бұрын

In the parlance of The Venture Brothers, the British Arched Napoleon.

@bobs_toys

5 ай бұрын

​​@@louisduarte8763at least the guild law had a good balance. Some real level 10 stuff right there

@livethefuture2492

5 ай бұрын

Like Father Like Son...Gotta love the British.

Fun thought.. Napoleon's real life was so unbelievable.. had he actually died that Christmas night, if you were instead making an alternate history about "what if Napoleon had lived" I don't think you'd come close to what actually happened, if that makes sense.

@EvilParagon4

5 ай бұрын

Similar to how those alt hist stories of WW2 being won by the Allies from the perspective of a Nazi victory writer. This would be a similar great story, but interestingly there probably wouldn't even be a concept of Napoleonic Wars. It would probably embellish French strength and unity, and persistance into the modern era (because heck, maybe France fully collapses in the Napoleon death scenario).

Fun fact: Napoleon III also survived an explosive assassination attempt going to the opera.

@louisduarte8763

5 ай бұрын

So he was a sequel AND a remake.

@royalplayz4274

5 ай бұрын

@@louisduarte8763 Pretty Much 😂

@garrettmetting6938

5 ай бұрын

​@@louisduarte8763a soft reboot

@katanabluejay

5 ай бұрын

Abe Lincoln: Is it possible to learn this power?

The one time drunk driving ever saved a life

@nicinat0r

5 ай бұрын

One?

@wrenloco

5 ай бұрын

It is like the inverse of Princess Di's death.

@bigTanker99

5 ай бұрын

Hahahahahahaha that had me rolling

Napoleon becomes "worst revolutionary ever" Asked to leave life

This is like that office handshake meme. Napoleon is the boss in the suit looking happy and thankfull while the drunk carriage driver is the guy with the long hair that doesn't seem to know what the hell is going on.

The British using Cadougal, who used the royalists, who used a teenage girl, that held a bomb reminds me of Episode II when Palpatine used Dooku, who used Jango Fett, who used a shapeshifter, who used a droid, who used worms to try to kill Padme.

@Leo-ok3uj

Ай бұрын

We make fun of that part on Episode 2 for being convoluted, while ignoring that political assassinations tend to be even more convoluted

I love the idea of Napoleon being a bad husband and a drunk carriage driver protected Napoleon from being blown up. Napoleon didn't have to change his name to Napoleon Blownaparte

@alanpennie

5 ай бұрын

Excellent.

@leisti

5 ай бұрын

Nice.

@hankdude

5 ай бұрын

Blownaparte? More like... BLOW A PART

@FLAMM3NW3RF

5 ай бұрын

Moral of the story is that it ain't the drunk drivers, it's the drunk crashers

@MrShipBuff

5 ай бұрын

@@FLAMM3NW3RF Exactly, the drunk crashers are always getting drunk drivers in trouble

News Reporters during the 1800: How did you save Napoleon's life? Napoleon's carriage's driver: I was drunk that day. That's how I saved his life.

My favorite mission from assassins creed unity Also for a movie about josephina and napoleon I’m surprised Ridley Scott didn’t use this

@reboomer8369

5 ай бұрын

Stupid a fucking movie

@TheDethBringer666

5 ай бұрын

ikr, he couldve twisted it to be some return of the terror-just ignore the lil girl made suicide bomber, the honorable British would never do that!

@thomasmarren2354

5 ай бұрын

I remember playing this too!

@waffle6376

5 ай бұрын

Maybe in the extend cut

@HugsMando

5 ай бұрын

It was seen in the trailer though it wasn’t in the movie.

Still more accurate than the Ridley Scott movie.

It was so fire that Cody made a video on the time the minions assassinated Napoleon

I love the Bay of Pigs analogy. Just as whimsical!

I regret not waiting to vote for this as history video of the year.

Cody trying to avoid becoming another Internet Historian by citing those articles at the end.

@drakeshade6919

5 ай бұрын

I was literally thinking that when he mentioned the sources, people are really starting to be a little more careful now

@andreimorar5249

5 ай бұрын

"The hbomberguy video on KZread plagiarism and its consequences have been a shift for the average history youtuber"

@gabriel.b9036

5 ай бұрын

​@@andreimorar5249I borrowed a quote without giving proper credit and hbomberguy smashed my car window.

@fiyum333

2 ай бұрын

thought you were the volgun for a sec

Funfact: Chouan means "the silent one", or "owl" in French

@alanpennie

5 ай бұрын

Interesting. Being silent and nocturnal are plus points for a subversive organisation.

Good on ya for calling out the article that inspired the video and including your sources. I think we all are aware of the current hyperawareness for plagiarism and sourcing these days after a certain hbomb went off.

@dajosh42069

5 ай бұрын

Was thinking the same thing, I suspect that's what inspired that little blurb at the end. I hope this becomes more common place after all that's happened.

@toddvogel8887

5 ай бұрын

@@dajosh42069 Especially since I recently saw a couple videos calling out history youtubers for plagiarism and bad sourcing practices. I actually dropped a couple that I had been following for years without knowing they were just making shit up or plagiarizing others.

@EvilParagon4

5 ай бұрын

Who cares about plagiarism lol. I was never going to read any article.

@toddvogel8887

5 ай бұрын

@@EvilParagon4 Thanks for openly admitting to being part of the problem.

@numebernode

5 ай бұрын

What was the incident?

This would actually make a fantastic historical comedy movie

Perfidious Albion defeated by french wine, it makes no sense yet completely tracks at the same time

"Trust me, officer, my drink-driving is crucial to the timeline!"

I don't think the comparison to operation Valkyrie quite works. The allies had already declared there would be only a single, unconditional peace treaty with Germany. The success of the plot might have led to a quicker surrender by Germany in the end, but the plotters weren't really anti-fascist, they just blamed Hitler's leadership for Germany being headed for complete defeat. It doesn't have as much potential for a different outcome as Napoleon dying in 1800. The 1938 assassination plot might be a more interesting comparison, as it would throw the Nazi party into paranoid chaos on the brink of WW2, perhaps compounded by the fact that the assassin was a clockmaker working alone. In the time it took to figure that out they might have jumped to conclusions about some kind of greater conspiracy, which could have any number of consequences. Making them delay the outbreak of the war out of fear of internal instability? Rush into war in an attempt to maintain the party's strength or to destroy a foreign power they blamed for the assassination before it could strike again? It's mostly speculation, but it would be interesting how a major political assassination would affect the decision-making of Hitler's successors on questions like whether to propose the Molotov-Ribentropp pact or how soon Germany should aim to start a war with Poland

Gods chosen people, the drunk driver is to thank for saving napoleon

From now on whenever I take a taxi, I will always make sure that my driver is completely drunk.

Video idea: What if the Bojinka Plot has somehow managed to succeed?

Two questions: What if this plot killed Napoleon? More important, what if the Gunpowder Plot succeeded?

@jamessloven2204

5 ай бұрын

@@FranzAntonMesmerFrankly, I don’t know how they could succeed. Maybe my knowledge is too shallow, but who were they negotiating with during their uprising?

"Mom! Uncle Althist got drunk on eggnog and won't stop telling me about Napoleon again!"

Scenario Idea: What if Jamukha became the leader of the Mongols instead of Temujin?

Hey Cody, when are we getting "What if Japan had remained neutral in WW2?" or "What if Japan had been part of the Allies in WW2?" It's very much needed and would be really nice to watch.

@Cailus3542

5 ай бұрын

Eh. After Japanese atrocities in China, there was no way that the Allies could politically survive aligning with Japan. They barely managed to be allies with the Soviets.

@lego007guym8

5 ай бұрын

Thats actually kinda a plot point in Harry Turtledoves "Great War" series that features the Confederates allied with the Allies of WWI and the Union allied with the Axis of WWI.

@TheDanEdwards

5 ай бұрын

​@@Cailus3542 Exactly. Japan was heading towards a conflict with other nations over Japan's imperial expansion anyway.

@zfrank4095

5 ай бұрын

​@@Cailus3542colonialism. Also: yes, Japan was opportunistic, deciding to change over hands of colonies by "freeing" them.

@bboi1489

5 ай бұрын

​@@Cailus3542Especially with their not-so-subtle goals in the craved Pacific. The colonial powers would never put up with it

You know Napoleon was scary when his explosion resistance was over 9000

@YaBoiBaxter2024

5 ай бұрын

💥💥💀

@6000.

5 ай бұрын

Bro got blast protection V 💀

@martinbaxter2616

5 ай бұрын

Vegeta approves this post.

@floatingf8783

5 ай бұрын

WHAT?! 9000?! There's no way that can be right.

Video Idea: What if the spanish american reconquista actually suceded? (The american reconquista was the last hope of Spain to reconquer and hold his colonies around 1830, but it failed due to too much political instability)

So the first car bomb was thwarted by one of the first instances of drunk driving

@RipOffProductionsLLC

5 ай бұрын

I strongly doubt Drunk "Driving" hadn't happened before. If anything, the horse's nature as an animal with some degree of autonomy and self-control means that a drunk driver/rider is far less of a hazard abd make the practice far less taboo.

This truly is a Christmas story, It envolves all the cool Christmas things like drunk driving, marital problems and murder

Fun fact : Napoléon III, the nephew of Napoléon, will also be the target of an attack around the opera years later, thus starting the construction of a new, safer opera house : the Opéra Garnier.

I've been watching your videos since I was 12 wave far back too early 2014 I am 22 now and I'm happy to see how far you've come😊 and you being the father of all what if KZread channels on KZread😅

The great Napoleon! 😎🇫🇷🥖

@leviathan7593

5 ай бұрын

Crossover Time! Can’t wait for your Napoleon vid.

@rimabros98

5 ай бұрын

Sup MrShperical

Moral of the story: if you drive drunk you can't be killed by a car bomb, so always drink before you drive

Good that you're linking your sources and inspirations 😉

Thanks for giving sources, love your work!

How did this not make the movie? This would have been a fantastic scene.

It's kind of wild that after Napoleon narrowly survived being assassinated and saw a bunch of people get blown up, he still went to the opera.

@Yora21

5 ай бұрын

Well, he surely felt he had to. Not being intimidated by assassins and such.

@benmurray8810

5 ай бұрын

I mean, he was probably pretty used to seeing people blow up by that point.

Hey I do appreciate the sources it's always nice to have that... Unlike certain other creators...

Scenario idea: What if the Habsburgs stayed in France and formed an Empire?

@YaBoiBaxter2024

5 ай бұрын

Another one would be if they took over France.

@louisduarte8763

5 ай бұрын

@@YaBoiBaxter2024 They could have spun it as the HRE bringing France BACK into it, as it was under Charlemagne.

@BrandonBDN

5 ай бұрын

“And form an empire” that’s completely unrelated and unrealistic to the scenario What’s with these suggestions and adding something unnecessary at the end? “What if the Netherlands won the Anglo-Dutch wars and conquered the world”

@NapoleanBlown-aparte

5 ай бұрын

​@@BrandonBDNwhat if germany managed to take some random town they didn't take with a population under 50,000 and then conquered sri lanka

First bunnies, now explosions. Napoleon’s bizarre adventures.

This is the best Christmas story ever

I was expecting this to be much longer. Merry Christmas Cody.

3:08 I think the real What If we need from this video is: What If Napoleon’s Driver Was _Even More_ Drunk? Just straight up forcing Napoleon into Crazy Taxi.

"Oh, they gonna need to have glue, to put yu together, *In hell* "

@michaelaalseth6701

5 ай бұрын

KA-BOOOOOOOM!

This was the most hilarious and dark story I have ever heard today. Merry Christmas everyone

Love your content! Happy holidays 🎄🎄🎄❤️❤️❤️❤️

Perfect timing since I Received The Notification For This Video While I Played Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture,So Good On You Boney

I remember this being depicted in a miniseries that aired on A&E maybe twenty years ago or something. They definitely didn't bother with the "Napoleon was irritated at his wife" angle (which is weird, because they didn't shy away from their marital problems elsewhere). The way they had it, Napoleon and Josephine were both in the carriage as she's extolling his popularity. "Everyone is singing your praises!" Napoleon scoffs. "I had to shut down fifteen newspapers to achieve that." Cue bomb.

If he died then there is nothing we can do

@YaBoiBaxter2024

5 ай бұрын

Ahhhhh, I see what you did there.

Merry Christmas Cody, I hope your video blows up!

The word "infernal" itself is forever tied to this event for me ever since I first read about it as a kid.

I remember saving Napoleon from this scenario in Assassin's Creed: Unity

Napoleon Blownaparte

Displaying sources in the video itself, love that

I love your channel keep up the great stuff

Cody: "By the way, here's the articles this video was based on." HBomberGuy, slowly putting down his axe: *Acceptable.*

@apex8724

5 ай бұрын

This is incomprehensible to the the Internet Historian mind

Assuming a French driver could have been sober is the most unlikely scenario I've seen on this channel.

Cool video thanks man. Love your stuff!

I am absolutely all on board with Cody just talking about weird, quirky events from history.

A vid on if the Sino-Soviet split never happened or was patched up in the 70s would be quite kino

@sergioventura2595

5 ай бұрын

Sup my man

@conserva-chan2735

5 ай бұрын

@@sergioventura2595 as always my former firetrucker

@sergioventura2595

5 ай бұрын

@@conserva-chan2735 Yup how have you been?

@bruhbruh-us6gl

5 ай бұрын

Sino-Soviet split never happened

Funny enough, the Cadoudal affair, cemented Napoleon support from the Jacobins, it was in that way that he would become emperor, not by throwing the needle between the Jacobins and the Royalists as many believe. Also the "proscribed Jacobins" were not really "Jacobins", but radicals, but those radicals were named as Jacobins for their extremism, yet they were more "Thermidorians" by nature as they supported the directory, and almost all surviving "true Jacobins" would rally early or later to Napoleon, remember that they do not dislike centralization of power as shown with Robespierre but wanted radical change, something the directory obviously never did. Also there was a lot of infighting between the Jacobins, those (Barere, Debry, Thuriot, Merlin de Douai, etc) that were pretty radicals, but not as much as the more radical Hebertists, and those that were a bit more moderate (like Carnot). Also Napoleon being a loyalist to Robespierre during Thermidor was an issue that many in the directory disliked but many Robespierrists appreciated, like his sister

@louisduarte8763

5 ай бұрын

A radical group breaking up and descending into infighting while ignoring their common enemy? What a shocker. It's the "SPLITTERS!" bit from "Life of Brian" IRL.

@Game_Hero

5 ай бұрын

I genuinely wonder if people will get as excited to study and talk about inner politics and dynamics between politicians of our age in the future.

Bro I love these type of vids please do more!

Love this channel

The English: it was almost a Christmas Mircale.

7:22 i see you got self-conscious after that hbomb video like every other educational youtuber lmao

Look up the infernal machine attempt to assassinate Louis Phillipe. This dude hooked several muskets together so they all fired at the same time. Mad scientist vibes.

Nice video, short and sweet, and neat of you to shout out the article that inspired you to make it.

Last time I was this early, Napoleon's army in Russia was still intact.

Is this the plot to the play by Allain Bennette?

@adalaza

5 ай бұрын

I was walking along the rue The rue Saint-Michelle On my way to get a tram card into Paris. I had just bought myself a cream horn With my friend Dudlè un Pierre.

Two videos in one week? Christmas came early this year!

great video

Almost exploding on Christmas is something a lot of us do every year. What am I supposed to do; NOT stuff myself silly with pigs-in-blankets and roast potatoes? Either way, I'm eager to see the alternate timeline that "Napoleon Blownapart" could have created. Hell, just call it Napoleon Blownapart.

He was definitely average height for the time

Fascinating! Somehow I had never heard of this event!

Why isn't this made into a movie!?! Someone tell Ridley Scott he made the wrong movie!

Today's Fact: The world's largest collection of belly button lint is over 22 grams in weight and is owned by a man in Australia.

@YaBoiBaxter2024

5 ай бұрын

Weird Xmas present but ok 😨

Its so funny to know that women taking freaking forever to decide on their dress and makeup is a timeless tradition

Merry Christmas Napoleon

You should do a video on the finno korean hyperwar

What better Christmas gift than dear uncle Cody telling tales about boom-boom carriages against Napoleon?

My boy watched som Hbomber guy I see. The transparency of sources is crystal clear

Now that I think about it, I'm surprised Cody has never done a video on Operation Valkyrie.

This was the best Christmas story ever I will tell this to my kids as a bedtime on Christmas Eve

Love you bro

Truly a boomin Christmas present 🎉

The bomb reminds me of the failed grenade assassination on arch Duke Franz Ferdinand only ww1 still happened and he still got got

Damn, you can just FEEL the ghost of HBomberguy in that outro.