USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -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-3: -23.2. 5: The Continental System. The Continental System was Napoleon’s strategy to weaken Britain’s economy by banning trade between Britain and states occupied by or allied with France, which proved largely ineffective and eventually led to Napoleon’s fall.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Continental System was a policy of economic warfare against Britain which was introduced by Napoleon. Its aim was to impose an economic blockade against Britain and to prevent import of British goods by other countries of Europe.

Detailed explanation-5: -Causes of the Failure of the Continental System – It was an impossible scheme and Napoleon could not pursue the European countries to boycott trades with England. 2. England was all-powerful on the seas and she successfully stopped all foreign trade of Napoleon and his friends.