Cuban Cane Sugar 



tering down the continental fron- 

 tiers and in increasing his possessions 

 amazingly but he met failure in 

 his principal task that of humilia- 

 ting his chief enemy, Great Britain; 

 and, in 1805, he was forced to give 

 up his intention of attacking that 

 country when Nelson destroyed the 

 French fleet off Trafalgar, conse- 

 quently preventing the landing of 

 the French in England. 



When, in the end, Great Britain 

 established herself as mistress of the 

 seas, and succeeded in opening trade 

 relations with the continent, in spite 

 of Napoleon's strenuous efforts to 

 forbid them, the French Emperor 

 devised what was known as the 

 "Continental System" which dealt 

 a disastrous blow to the cane sugar 

 industry. 



Seeing that the struggle was not 

 to be brought to an end by fighting, 

 Napoleon tried to isolate his enemy 

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