The British have been threatened by three famous invasions in 1588, 1805, and 1940 but the year of maximum danger may have been 1779, when a greatly superior Franco-Spanish invasion fleet was foiled only by an outbreak of smallpox and a divine wind.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armada_of_1779 ….
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I think it would have been completely implausible. Bonnie Prince Charlie failed in 1745 because he couldn't find any English supporters for the Jacobite cause; 30+ years later if the French tried to put a Stuart on the throne they'd just be promptly overthrown.
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They'd feel vindicated
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