The main conflicts between Britain and France…

July 1806 CE

The main conflicts between Britain and France during the Fourth Coalition will involve no direct general military confrontation apart from some naval clashes and the peripheral Battle of Maida in southern Italy in July 1806 (though these actions are considered part of the tail end of the War of the Third Coalition).

Rather, there is an escalation in the ongoing economic warfare between the two powers.

With Britain still retaining its dominance of the seas, Napoleon will look to break this dominance (after his defeat of Prussia) with his issuance of the Berlin Decree and the beginnings of his Continental System.

Britain will retaliate with its Orders in Council several months later.

In the meantime, Russia has spent most of 1806 still licking her wounds from the previous year's campaign.

Napoleon had hoped to establish peace with Russia and a tentative peace treaty is signed in July 1806, but this is vetoed by Tsar Alexander I and the two powers remain at war.

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Alexander I of Russia View → Frederick William III of Prussia View → Napoleon View →

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Saxony, Electorate of View → Sweden, (second) Kingdom of View → Brunswick-Lüneburg, Electorate of (Electorate of Hanover) View → Prussia, Kingdom of View → Russian Empire View → Britain (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland) View → France, (first) Empire of View → Austrian Empire View →

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Napoleonic Wars View → Third Coalition, War of the View → Fourth Coalition, War of the View → Maida, Battle of View →

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Commerce View → Conflict View → Government View →

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