FRENCH REVOLUTION
FRANCE UNDER NAPOLEON
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Question
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defeat Prussia.
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stop British trade with Europe.
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unify Italy.
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conquer Protestantism.
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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: -Battle of Trafalgar. In 1806, he ordered a blockade and stopped all trade between Britain and other European nations. Napoleon called this policy the Continental System.