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The Continental Blockade — Economic war against Great Britain (1806–1814)
Decreed at Berlin on 21 November 1806, the Blockade closed the continent to British trade; enforcing it cost the Empire Louis’s Holland, the Russian alliance — and ultimately the campaign of 1812. (Editorial synthesis)
The Continental Blockade began on 21 November 1806. (source: Fondation Napoléon)
The Continental Blockade ended in the failed strangling of British trade and the Empire’s growing isolation. (source: Fondation Napoléon)
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