Claire's Deck

Question 1

Blockade

Answer 1

To seal off a place to prevent goods or people from entering or leaving

Question 2

Continental system

Answer 2

The foreign policy of Napoleon of France against the United Kingdom during the Napoleonic wars

Question 3

Guerillas

Answer 3

Harassing the enemies by surprise raids, sabotaging communication and supply lines etc

Question 4

Peninsular war

Answer 4

Peninsular War, 1808–14, fought by France against Great Britain, Portugal, Spanish regulars, and Spanish guerrillas in the Iberian Peninsular. It lasted for 7 years and France LOST

Question 5

Scorched earth policy

Answer 5

a military strategy of burning or destroying buildings, crops, or other resources that might be of use to an invading enemy force.

Question 6

100 days

Answer 6

Hundred Days, French Cent Jours, in French history, period between March 20, 1815, the date on which Napoleon arrived in Paris after escaping from exile on Elba, and July 8, 1815, the date of the return of Louis XVIII to Paris. The phrase was first used by the prefect of the Seine, comte de Chabrol de Volvic, in his speech welcoming the king.

Question 7

Waterloo

Answer 7

The Battle of Waterloo was fought on Sunday, 18 June 1815, near Waterloo in present-day Belgium, then part of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands. A French army under the command of Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition: a British-led Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington, and a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, Prince of Wahlstatt. The battle marked the end of the 20 year Napoleonic Wars.

Question 8

Exile/death

Answer 8

The condition or period of being forced to live away from one’s native country or home, especially as a punishment.