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Me GB3 Part 22.4

Published on Nov 25, 2015

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1806

  • he set up a blockade to prevent all trade and communication between Great Britain
  • The blockade weakened British but it didnt destroy it
  • Britain responded with its own blockade they were better able to do this than the French”
  • With this britain was able to counteract france

1806-1807

  • British navy stopped ships form the continent as apart of the blockade
  • Every ship they stop they force them to go to britian and get taxed and searched
  • American ships were among those stopped by the British navy.
  • America didnt like this so they WENT TO WAR

1808

  • Nopoleon's empire was slowly falling down because of his bad decisions
  • One of them was when he invaded spain to make them accept the continental System
  • He replaced the spainsh ruler with his brother and this angered the people
  • For six years, bands guerrillas struck at French armies in Spain
  • Napoleon lost about 300,000 men

1808 CONTINUED

  • Russians retreated but want to weaken frecnh so the Russians practiced a scorched-earth policy
  • after hours fighting, the Russians fell back, letting Napoleon to move on Moscow.
  • Refusing to let france get moscow they burned it down
  • With moscow destroyed napoleon turned around to france
  • His trip to france killed many of his men only 10,000 of 420,00 lived

1814

  • With limited supplies and soilders Napoleon was weak and this made other counties attack
  • Britain, Russia, Prussia, and Sweden joined forces against him and defeat him
  • King Frederick William III of Prussia and Czar Alexander I of Russia led their troops in a triumphant parade through the French capita
  • “In April 1814, he accepted the terms of surrender and gave up his throne and was kicked out

1814-1815

  • the new king went unliked among his subjects
  • Louis’s problems or weakness was all Napoleon needed to try to regain power
  • Naopleon reagined power and tried to take over for 100 days but was defeated