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Berlin Decree

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A decree issued at Berlin by Napoleon I., forbidding any of the nations of Europe to trade with Great Britain (1806). This mad fancy was the first step to the great man’s fall.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Bergomask
Berkley (Mr.)
Berkshire (Saxon, Bearoc - scire, forest-shire)
Berlin Decree
Berlin Time
Berliners
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