Continental Blockade

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The Continental Blockade was a blocking of European ports for trade with the United Kingdom. It was declared by Napoleon I in November, 1806. However due to the power of the Royal Navy the UK was better able than France to make their own blockade work. The blockade did not have the intended result of breaking British power but instead created a shortage of colonial products on the continent. One of these was sugar from sugarcane. As a result sugar beet spread over Europe as a new resource of sugar. The Continental System has come to be known as one of Napoleon's three major mistake, along with the Invasion of Russia and the War with Spain.

See also

• Continental System

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