USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Continental Blockade (French: Blocus continental), or Continental System, was a large-scale embargo against British trade by Napoleon Bonaparte against the British Empire from 21 November 1806 until 11 April 1814, during the Napoleonic Wars.

Detailed explanation-2: -Continental System, in the Napoleonic wars, the blockade designed by Napoleon to paralyze Great Britain through the destruction of British commerce. The decrees of Berlin (November 21, 1806) and Milan (December 17, 1807) proclaimed a blockade: neutrals and French allies were not to trade with the British.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Continental System, inaugurated by the Berlin decrees of 21 November 1806, was meant to prohibit all trade, even by neutral countries, with Britain, the nation that Napoleon derisively referred to as ‘an island of shopkeepers, ’ thereby sealing it off from continental Europe.

Detailed explanation-4: –He called this policy the Continental System, because it was suppose to make continental Europe more self sufficient.-Because Britain had the better navy it didn’t work, and Britain blocked France instead.-As a result the Continental System hurt Napoleon more than his enemies, and weakened the economy of France.

Detailed explanation-5: -The embargo was effective intermittently for about half the time but in terms of economic damage to Great Britain, it largely failed. It encouraged British merchants to engage in smuggling with continental Europe and seek out new markets.