MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
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Question
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Portugal wasn’t following Continental System
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France was bankrupt
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Russia was invaded
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Portugal, on the other hand, refused adamantly to join the Continental System. Portugal was pro-British because it depended on its colonies. Because of Britain’s dominance of the seas, Portugal knew that continuing trade relations with its colonies depended on good relations with Britain.
Detailed explanation-2: -Portugal refused to comply with the Continental System because.. it depended on its trade with Great Britain. Throughout the Napoleonic Wars, France’s greatest enemy was.. Great Britain.
Detailed explanation-3: -Because the British had an overwhelming superiority at sea, though, enforcing the system proved disastrous for Napoleon. His efforts to halt evasions of his blockade stretched French forces too thin, and ultimately provoked his calamitous invasion of Russia in 1812.
Detailed explanation-4: -Frustrated by Portugal’s defiance of his Continental Blockade against trade with Great Britan, Napoleon ordered General Jerot to march French troops over the Pyrenees. On November 30, French troops entered the Portuguese capital of Lisbon and closed the country’s ports to English ships.