USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The blockade led to consequences such as the Peninsular War and the Russian Campaign which in turn led to the severe loss of men and materiel – all a result of Napoleon’s enforcement of the Continental Blockade .

Detailed explanation-2: -Several critical factors, most significantly the insufficient access to resources, unfamiliar, freezing terrain, and the strategic efforts of the French military leaders, influenced the defeat of Napoleon by the Russians in 1812.

Detailed explanation-3: -Through its command of the sea, financial subsidies to allies on the European mainland, and active military intervention in the Peninsular War, Britain played the central role in Napoleon’s downfall even as all the other major powers switched back and forth.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Peninsular War contribute to Napoleon’s downfall by shattering the myth that Napoleon and his military forces were unstoppable. The guerrilla warfare employed by the Spanish forces on the Iberian peninsula also occupied the French military and this allowed them to be beaten by the English forces.

Detailed explanation-5: -On 21 November, 1806, Napoleon decreed, from his Palace in Berlin, a blockade of the British Isles and forbade all British goods and commerce entering the continent. This came to be known as the ‘continental’ blockade since de facto most of the European continent was under French influence.