Why did napoleon design a blockade in 1806?

a) to cripple the economy of england
b) to force england to accept french authority
c) to prove that france could destroy england
d) to force england to give up supremacy at sea

The right answer is "A) to cripple the economy of England "

The Continental Blockade was the prohibition imposed by the emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, with the issuance, on November 21, 1806, of the Berlin decree, which consisted in preventing access to ports of the countries then submitted to the dominion of the First French Empire to ships of the Kingdom United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

With this Napoleon forbade trade with England, in order to break England's resistance, Napoleon attempted to smother it economically by forbidding European countries to trade with the English by enacting the Continental Blockade in 1806.

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