they trapped them
The continental system.
The Continental System
they trapped them
He developed warfare against the British maritime trade, increasing licenses for the activity of privateer and embittered the regulations of thee Continental Blockade.
A ban on trade with England(an attempt by Napoleon to weaken the British by closing trade between them)
The Continental System. He tried to cut off the British economy by forcing an embargo using all of the major powers of the European Continent. Because he knew he could not win a sea battle against the Royal Navy, Trafalgar as his evidence, he tried to cut off the newly forming industrial economy.
There was no physical blockade of British ports by the French under Napoleon. What occurred was a trade war with competing embargos, begun by Napoleon in a plan to weaken Britain economically. France did not have the ships to enforce the announced blockade. The so-called "Continental system" prohibited other nations from trading with England. The British responded by blockading French ports. Caught in the middle were countries like the US, who only wished to have commerce wherever it was welcome. When Russia finally withdrew from the system in 1812, Napoleon invaded, eventually taking Moscow but losing almost his entire army.
He was trying to weaken England. This tactic was called the Continental System and it failed because European residents had grown accustomed to UK products and refused to end trade and smuggling. Napoleon's Naval Forces failed to prevent smuggling and were always at risk from the Royal Navy.
Napoleon Bonaparte created the continental system in order to weaken Britain's economy. The system forbid any nation in Europe from trading with Britain.
he did not weaken France but his last battle was the battle of Waterloo he weaken France then because he lost the battle of Waterloo so it was the end of napoleon at the battle.
It was established as a form of Economic Warfare against the United Kingdom.
The greatest danger to Napoleon's empire was the indomitable will of Great Britain to carry on the war against him, irrespective of sacrifices, defeats and costs. The british were indefatigable in organizing and financing riots and coalitions aimed to weaken the empire by all means, taking advantage of Napoleon's mistakes.