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- offering refuge and supplies to Confederate blockade runners. The port also saw Canada's first overseas military deployment as a nation to aid the ...34 KB (5,199 words) - 16:57, 21 January 2024
- In addition, Cortes maintained a blockade with the help of the canoes of his Indian allies, as his brigantines were not so useful in this situation ...39 KB (6,310 words) - 01:38, 26 September 2023
- and Avaris. This indicates he was planning a blockade of Avaris, isolating the Hyksos from help or supplies coming from Canaan.Nevine El-Aref, [https://www ...39 KB (6,109 words) - 06:55, 16 June 2023
- also sent the Royal Navy, which instigated a blockade of the islands. The isolated French forces, under General Claude-Henri Belgrand de Vaubois, ...35 KB (5,045 words) - 06:40, 5 November 2022
- success as they found they could not blockade Lake İznik, on which the ... rulers. There was no hope of trying to blockade the city as they had at ...80 KB (12,105 words) - 15:35, 30 March 2024
- naval resources to plunder Spanish ships and blockade the Spanish-controlled southern provinces. ==Economic troubles== Aside from draining state ...35 KB (5,314 words) - 03:19, 24 November 2022
- was shut down. The British Royal Navy imposed a blockade around the country in order to force the Iranian regime to abandon the effort to nationalize ...36 KB (5,440 words) - 05:21, 26 August 2023
- #039; as chiefly political, and he saw the Berlin blockade starting in June 1948, the first Soviet test of a nuclear weapon in August 1949, the Communist ...39 KB (5,908 words) - 15:44, 20 May 2024
- the Nizam alleged that India had created a blockade. India, on the other hand, charged that Hyderabad received arms from Pakistan, and that the Nizam ...40 KB (5,861 words) - 00:17, 12 April 2023
- new tax on all imports from the North. A Union blockade stopped most commerce from entering the South, so the Confederate taxes hardly mattered. The ...38 KB (5,665 words) - 15:40, 4 February 2023
- S. coast, it was regularly used by Confederate blockade runners during the American Civil War to evade Union naval vessels and bring desperately needed ...36 KB (5,347 words) - 11:05, 28 September 2023
- following the Allied blockade that cut off the supply of nitrates from Chile. The ammonia was used to produce explosives to sustain their war effort. ...39 KB (5,803 words) - 07:35, 25 July 2023
- The U.S. responded by placing a naval blockade on Cuba in order to prevent the receipt of further Soviet missile shipments. President Kennedy ...72 KB (10,971 words) - 06:40, 11 January 2024
- of the Mongol Empire, under complete economic blockade by Muslim states. In response to Muslim domination on land, Portugal sought an eastward sea route ...38 KB (6,067 words) - 21:42, 10 December 2023
- 2. On August 5, Franco was able to break the blockade with the newly arrived air support, successfully deploying a ship convoy with some 2,000 soldiers. ...40 KB (6,158 words) - 04:53, 9 April 2024
- former communists) and effectively triggered a blockade. The defection of General Abdul Rashid Dostam and his Uzbek militia, in March 1992, seriously ...40 KB (5,946 words) - 15:41, 4 February 2023
- Sweden is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe, bordered by Norway in the west, Finland in the northeast, the Skagerrak ...40 KB (5,890 words) - 20:41, 17 March 2024
- to be obtained because of the Allied blockade. Reed's mind started to wander; eventually he lost the use of the right side of his body and ...41 KB (6,282 words) - 07:41, 3 August 2022
- its coastal areas and threatened a permanent blockade of the nation's ports in 1852. For France, the British first tried to impose a solution ...45 KB (6,987 words) - 14:55, 27 April 2023
- credited with stopping the German submarine blockade by forcing a reluctant Royal Navy to adopt a convoy system. His 1909 Budget had also rearmed the ...46 KB (7,168 words) - 08:06, 28 January 2024
