WORLD 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.

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: -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.

Detailed explanation-5: -The reply of England-Order in Council-The reply to the Continental System of Napoleon, England also issued Order in Council, by which England declared that country of Europe which does not trade trade with England or whose ships carry France’s good will be seized by the English Navy.