Borodino 7 September 1812

Type:

Book Chapter

Author:

Paul K Davis

Published:

2001

Publisher:

Oxford University PressNew York, NY

Abstract By 1807, Emperor Napoleon had defeated every major power on the Continent at least once. His authority stretched from Spain to Poland, and only Great Britain remained untouchable. Russia was as yet unconquered, but Czar Alexander signed the Treaty of Tilsit in 1807 and that made him an ally, albeit unwilling, of Napoleon’s France. Under the terms of the treaty, the Russian monarch was to have his country join Napoleon’s Continental System, which was designed to hurt Britain the only way France could, chat is, economically. By denying European markets to British merchants, Napoleon hoped to put economic pressure on the British government, much as the American colonists had done to Britain before the American Revolution. In place of British manufactured goods, Russians were to buy products from France, even though they were rather more expensive.

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