Chapter 23 Section 4 Flashcards

1
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Blockade

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Forced closing of ports

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Continental System

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Napoleon’s policy if preventing trade and communication between Great Britain and other European nations

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3
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Guerrilla

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Spanish peasant fighter

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4
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Peninsular War

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War that Napoleon fought in Spain

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5
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Scorched-earth policy

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Policy of burning fields and slaughtering livestock so that enemy troops would find nothing to eat

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6
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Waterloo

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Battle in Belgium that was Napoleon’s final defeat

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7
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Hundred Days

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Napoleon’s last bid for power, which ended at Waterloo

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