Napoleon called this policy _______, because it was supposed to make continental Europe more self-sufficient. Napoleon also intended it to destroy Great Britain's commercial and industrial economy.
What is the Continental System?
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When Napoleon made a second costly mistake.
What is 1808?
100
June 1812.
When Napoleon and his Grand Army of more than 420,000 soldiers marched into Russia.
100
Napoleon's fight against Russia that weakened Napoleon's forces and allowed, Britain, Russia, Prussia, and Sweden to overpower the French.
What was the Russian campaign?
100
Spanish Pesant fighters who struck out against the French.
Who are the Guerrillas?
200
When Napoleon set up a blockade.
When is November 1806?
200
6 years.
How many years guerrillas struck at French armies in Spain.
200
Scorched-earth policy.
What the Russians practiced on their retreat.
200
A stomach ailment or cancer.
What did Napoleon die from?
200
A forcable closing of ports.
What is a blockade?
300
The British navy stopped neutral ships bound for the continent and forced them to sail to a British port to be searched and taxed.
Why Britain enforced the blockade?
300
300,000 men.
How many men Napoleon lost during the Peninsular War?
300
On September 7, 1812, this took place.
What is the Battle of Borodino?
300
The pesants' dislike of the king.
What allowed Napoleon to try to rise to power a second time?
300
The war in witch napolean lost 300,000 men.
What was the Peninsular War?
400
To prevent all trade and communication between Great Britain and other European nations.
Why Napoleon set up a blockade?
400
When Napoleon removed the Spanish king and put his own brother, Joseph, on the throne.
What outraged the Spanish people and inflamed their nationalistic feelings?
400
The amount of soldiers left in the Grand Army during the retreat from Moscow.
What is 10,000 soldiers.
400
The date when Napoleon surrendered.
What happened on 1814?
400
Burning grain fields so that the enemy would have nothing to eat.
What is the Scorched-Earth Policy?
500
Aided by the British, smugglers managed to bring cargo from Britain into Europe.
What proved that Napoleon's blockade wasn't tight enough?
500
An effort to get Portugal to accept the Continental System, he sent an invasion force through Spain.
What is Napoleon's second costly mistake?
500
The Russian czar refused to stop selling grain to Britain. In addition, the French and Russian rulers suspected each other of having competing designs on Poland.
Why Napoleon invaded Russia?
500
Napoleon's greatest loss in the Russian defeat.
What were trained battle horses?
500
A city in Belgium that napoleon attacked on March 1, 1815.