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The "Continental System" was designed as a boycott (before that term existed) of British trade to bring that 'nation of shopkeepers' to its knees. However since Britain effectively ruled the (European) waves by then it had limited effect. Portugal never adhered to it, and when Napoleon invaded that country to try and enforce it, he set off a sequence of events that led ultimately to his downfall.

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