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Continental SystemSystem 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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| For Britain, as for the accession countries, the choice may yet be between accepting the extinction of national independence, democracy, and freedom in an anti-American NSU or having to face the equivalent of Napoleon's Continental System of trade exclusion. David Goodman's work has long recognized the importance of seeing China not as a unitary whole but as a continental system. About 75 technical and service personnel from the Westchester system and other nearby Continental systems were called in to assist. |
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