What Were The Mistakes Of Napoleon's

Napoleon’s first mistakes occur between 1807 and 1810, when the only countries left to defeat were Britain and Russia, Napoleon thought he had to defeat Britain because, that’s who was keeping the coalitions against France alive through payments to different monarchs in Europe so that they would continue mobilizing armies against the French. So napoleon decided to attack Britain by making a blockade of ships around Britain in order to stop trade and the influx of food, money, and other necessities, this blockade was known as “The Continental System”.
In 1806, Napoleon issued the “Berlin Decrees”, a set of decrees which announced that Britain was under a state of blockade, meaning that Britain could no longer ship any goods to any
French-Owned port. Although this stopped much

Other than cotton (which was available almost everywhere), those imported goods from Britain were considered luxuries, and people had become addicted to them as they were luxurious, and after some time after the blockade, the French population had started to resent the French government for taking these luxuries away from them. The French had tried to replace these luxury items with sugar beet, and linen, but the French population were not going to tolerate that. What ended up happening after the blockade was that there was a rise in European nationalism in the French owned countries. After this, Napoleon had no other choice but to lower the restrictions, the lowering of trade restrictions instantly helped Britain, so after seeing that, so in 1811 Napoleon once again tightened the rules on trade, causing his allies and own nation to rebel. Russia refused to use the Continental System, which later led to the Moscow Campaign of