Chapter 23 Section 4 Flashcards
(7 cards)
Blockade
Forced closing of ports
Continental system
Napoleons policy of preventing trade and communication between Great Britain and other European nations
Guerrilla
Spanish peasant fighter
Peninsular war
War that napoleon fought in Spain
Scorched-earth policy
Policy of burning fields and slaughtering livestock so that enemy troops would find nothing to eat
Waterloo
Battle in Belgium that was napoleons final defeat
Hundred days
Napoleons last vid for power which ended at Waterloo