Continental System

event

Also known as the Continental Blockade. Napoleon I decreed an economic blockade of the United Kingdom, which lasted from 1806 to 1813.

Traveljournal 1814

Dover–London, 21–22 August 1814
Travelling on the “Salamanca” to Leeds, 3 September 1814

Traveljournal 1825–1827

Journey home via Paris, 13-21 October 1827

Traveljournal 1845

Foreword

Traveljournal 1846

Schaffhausen–Ostend, 15–17 October 1846

Traveljournal 1851

The importance of free trade for England

Fischer, Johann Conrad: Tagebücher. Bearbeitet von Karl Schib. Schaffhausen 1951.

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Cite as: Continental System. In: Travel Reports of a Pioneer: Digital Edition of the Travel Journals of Johann Conrad Fischer 1794–1851. Published by Franziska Eggimann. Edited by Franziska Eggimann, Nicolau Lutz, Valerija Rukavina und Christopher Zoller-Blundell. Schlatt 2023, Version 1.2, https://johannconradfischer.com/en/keywords/gfa-keywords-8583, viewed on 6 June 2025.

[[title]] — Malignant aspects looking with envy on John Bull and his satelites, or a new planetary system, satirical drawing about the continental blockade (caricature by Charles Williams, 1807)