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Continental System
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Continental System

System of economic preference and protection within Europe from 1806 to 1813 created by the French emperor Napoleon in order to exclude British trade; see France: history 1515-1815, the Napoleonic Wars. Apart from its function as economic warfare, the system also reinforced the French economy at the expense of other European states. It failed owing to British naval superiority.
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