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+ | enough. Aided by the British, smugglers managed to bring |
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+ | cargo from Britain into Europe. At times, Napoleon’s allies |
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+ | also disregarded the blockade. Even members of Napoleon’s |
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+ | family defied the policy, including his brother, Louis, whom |
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+ | he had made king of Holland. While the blockade weakened |
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+ | To enforce the blockade, the British navy stopped neutral |
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+ | among those stopped by the British navy. Angered, the U.S. |
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1806, Napoleon set up a blockade—a forcible closing of ports—to prevent all trade and communication between Great Britain and other European nations. Napoleon called this policy the Continental
System because it was supposed to make continental Europe more self-suffi- cient. Napoleon also intended it to destroy Great Britain’s
commercial and industrial economy. Napoleon’s blockade, however, was not nearly tight enough. Aided by the British, smugglers managed to bring cargo from Britain into Europe. At times, Napoleon’s allies also disregarded the blockade. Even members of Napoleon’s family defied the policy, including his brother, Louis, whom he had made king of Holland. While the blockade weakened British trade, it did not destroy it. In addition, Britain responded with its own blockade. And because the British had a stronger navy, they were better able than the French to make the blockade work. To enforce the blockade, the British navy stopped neutral ships bound for the continent and forced them to sail to a British port to be searched and taxed. American ships were among those stopped by the British navy. Angered, the U.S.