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- were flown into Berlin during the Soviet blockade. The task he faced in post ... On June 25, 1948, one day after the Soviets imposed the Berlin Blockade ...11 KB (1,629 words) - 02:26, 5 November 2022
- placed a naval "quarantine" (blockade) on Cuba to prevent further ... #Naval Blockade #:For: It would show the United States was serious ...24 KB (3,635 words) - 06:42, 11 January 2024
- ==Lincoln attempts blockade at Hampton Roads== Valley with gunboats. Lincoln ordered the blockade as hostilities escalated. ...27 KB (4,097 words) - 09:45, 22 September 2023
- as did his attempt to break the Ottoman blockade of Rettimo (Rethymno). As ... Their first operation was an attempt to blockade the Dardanelles in 1646 ...20 KB (3,128 words) - 19:12, 7 May 2020
- In 1956, Egypt used its control of Sinai to impose a blockade on the ... military presence in Sinai, renewed the blockade on Eilat, and on May 16 ...12 KB (1,929 words) - 22:24, 29 January 2023
- likely from starvation, as the Nazi blockade of Leningrad had already ... out of Kharms's apartment during the blockade of Leningrad and kept it ...13 KB (1,927 words) - 22:07, 25 January 2024
- At sea the powerful Royal Navy instituted a blockade of the majority ... , and the Royal Navy was compelled to blockade most of the coast of Europe ...42 KB (6,479 words) - 22:53, 3 May 2023
- make a run for Union vessels which were blockade\blockading Charleston harbor ... fleet, which was part of the Union blockade of Confederate ports, making ...13 KB (2,026 words) - 02:16, 16 December 2022
- from the instructions, including the blockade of Southern ports, privateering ... original plan was to attempt to run the blockade in the CSS Nashville, a ...21 KB (3,294 words) - 16:44, 2 May 2023
- Threatened by a Lombard blockade, Pelagius II sent the future Pope ... Before this could happen, however, the blockade of Rome by the Lombards ...15 KB (2,341 words) - 11:39, 13 February 2022
- longer had access to because of the Allied blockade. He lost two sons during the war, which is said to have resulted in a major upheaval in his emotional ...7 KB (1,041 words) - 23:02, 22 June 2023
- In 1864, she went to Great Britain via a blockade runner known as the CSS Greyhound. While there she met and married a Union naval officer, Samuel ...7 KB (1,038 words) - 20:18, 20 January 2022
- of the war, the British imposed a naval blockade on France, which affected ... and Cádiz to break through the blockade and combine in the West ...36 KB (5,789 words) - 01:40, 26 September 2023
- failures to facilitate negotiation in the Berlin Blockade, as well as his failure to bring about a swifter end to the Korean War. His critics argue that ...8 KB (1,239 words) - 18:30, 2 May 2023
- === Blockade of Charleston === Blackbeard's chief claim to fame is his blockade of Charleston ...25 KB (4,026 words) - 23:53, 12 February 2024
- and the effects of a naval, land and air blockade of Biafra led to a change ... of Port Harcourt on May 19, 1968. The blockade of the surrounded Biafrans ...31 KB (4,828 words) - 22:13, 28 November 2023
- to engage and limited their actions to blockade of Russian trade and small ... the supply of her military forces and the blockade seriously undermined the ...22 KB (3,405 words) - 06:24, 11 January 2024
- brother Clifford served as pilots aboard English blockade runners. On one of these voyages, his ship was boarded. Refusing to take the advice of the ...10 KB (1,503 words) - 14:34, 27 January 2023
- ===Berlin blockade=== the Soviet Union to introduce the Berlin Blockade in an attempt to gain control ...36 KB (5,407 words) - 17:16, 4 May 2023
- * Beveridge, William H. Blockade and the Civilian Population. The Clarendon. 1939. * Beveridge, William H. Prices and Wages in England from the ...11 KB (1,631 words) - 15:39, 6 May 2023
- *Coulomb blockade thermometer *Oral thermometer Some of the various types of thermometers are described below. == Mercury-in-glass thermometer == ...25 KB (3,599 words) - 01:20, 19 April 2023
- secret treaties and the idea of a naval blockade. Despite their own national interests that were in opposition to the fourteen points, both France ...13 KB (1,920 words) - 06:38, 1 April 2024
- ===Berlin blockade=== the Soviet Union to introduce the Berlin Blockade in an attempt to gain control ...42 KB (6,175 words) - 17:37, 12 February 2024
- from the Vistula, and launched a blockade of Elbing and Balga. While the castle withstood Teutonic attacks, the blockade was smashed by cogs. ...27 KB (4,091 words) - 08:22, 1 July 2022
- on for the same purpose were cut off due to the blockade of German shipping by the Allied forces. Haber at this time became engaged in the production ...12 KB (1,882 words) - 07:04, 15 April 2024
- SSR instigated a partial railway and air blockade against Armenia, as a response ... result from Armenia's continued blockade of the region in response ...32 KB (4,526 words) - 01:09, 11 November 2022
- At the outset of the war, the French government ordered a blockade ... remaining patrolling French ships, the blockade became less and less effective ...61 KB (9,426 words) - 14:18, 1 October 2022
- aboard Huáscar, Peru staged a series of blockade runs and harassment raids ... Huáscar and Independencia lifted the blockade of Iquique by Esmeralda ...34 KB (5,333 words) - 22:54, 3 May 2023
- could do little on land at Crete, and the blockade established by the Italian ... and feeding their populations under blockade. In 1918, the Austro-Hungarian ...37 KB (5,890 words) - 17:06, 23 December 2020
- and gain his support for the United States blockade, a role which he took seriously. Beisner, Dean Acheson, 631. During the 1960s, he was a leading ...14 KB (1,983 words) - 08:55, 28 January 2024
- A siege is a military blockade of a city or fortress with the intent ... of steamships availed greater speed to blockade runners, ships with the ...44 KB (6,877 words) - 22:27, 15 May 2023
- of Tiran strategic importance. Egypt's blockade of the Straits to Israeli ships and ships bound for Israel in 1956 and again in 1967 was a ...15 KB (2,306 words) - 08:25, 8 January 2024
- loyalist's navy, and the resulting blockade of Montevideo, made the ... cohesion in Argentina, a Spanish blockade in Valparaíso, and the ...40 KB (6,459 words) - 01:55, 8 September 2022
- Greece. The Admiral in charge of the blockade was Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh ... Whilst the Great Powers announced a blockade, Greek troops crossed the ...30 KB (4,602 words) - 15:49, 10 November 2022
- #039;s end. With ports to the east under blockade or capture, Texas in particular ... naval ships, which led to its successful blockade of Confederate ports. (The ...63 KB (9,343 words) - 03:27, 24 July 2023
- from 1838 to 1840, and a joint Anglo-French blockade from 1845 to 1848. Both blockades failed to gain surrender of the city, and the foreign powers ...30 KB (4,453 words) - 18:37, 22 November 2023
- His ship was trapped by the British blockade at New London, Connecticut ... Somers off the coast of Africa during the Blockade of Africa and was involved ...32 KB (5,039 words) - 16:55, 7 November 2022
- Members of the Algonquin tribe began a peaceful blockade of a uranium mining operation on their sacred lands north of Kingston, Ontario on June ...17 KB (2,518 words) - 18:12, 21 July 2023
- the entrance to the Han River. He hoped to blockade the waterway to the capital during the harvest season, thereby giving him leverage to force demands ...15 KB (2,312 words) - 10:51, 11 April 2024
- movement Abahlali baseMjondolo grew out of a road blockade in response to the sudden selling off of a small piece of land promised for housing to a developer ...19 KB (2,677 words) - 15:01, 27 April 2023
- flotilla was splintered yet was able to blockade the mouth of the Red River with the two remaining warships, but not efficiently patrol the section ...16 KB (2,422 words) - 07:56, 28 January 2024
- Western Theater and in the successful naval blockade of Confederate ports. In 1864, it was continued by General Ulysses S. Grant and executed by General ...19 KB (2,810 words) - 11:00, 15 May 2023
- There were ambiguities, however, about how rigorous the blockade would ... 50 percent, then indeed actually ordered blockade. The blockade was a violation ...66 KB (10,247 words) - 22:42, 29 January 2023
- surrounding Berlin, to impose an economic blockade of West Berlin. The Allies countered the blockade by airlifting food, fuel, and other ...35 KB (5,027 words) - 11:02, 28 September 2023
- embargo, an economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed on Cuba. This, and his social policies, had also earned him the opposition of right-wing ...17 KB (2,658 words) - 20:34, 4 October 2022
- who found him passage into Virginia with a blockade runner across the Potomac River. He met with the Generals Robert E. Lee, James Longstreet, and ...19 KB (2,878 words) - 04:34, 18 April 2024
- death, England threatened a naval blockade of Zanzibar that forced the sultan to close its slave market forever. ==Chronology of Events in Livingstone ...18 KB (2,693 words) - 08:06, 28 January 2024
- of 1967 to 1970, the Nigerian military formed a blockade around the nation's newly independent southeastern region, Biafra. At this time, France ...42 KB (6,193 words) - 17:12, 25 February 2024
- series of confrontations over the Berlin Blockade and the Berlin Wall. The ... Doctrine, the Marshall Plan, the Berlin Blockade and Berlin Airlift, the ...49 KB (7,114 words) - 22:28, 7 January 2024
- secret treaties and the idea of a naval blockade. However, Lloyd George was aware of the potential trouble that could come from an embittered ...20 KB (3,094 words) - 16:26, 2 May 2023
- * The Blockade Runners, (1876) * Michael Strogoff (Michel Strogoff, 1876) * Off On A Comet (Hector Servadac, 1877) * The Child of the Cavern, ...19 KB (2,945 words) - 21:07, 4 October 2022
- the British free to conduct a campaign of blockade for the remainder of the war. ... after the failure of the harvest and the blockade of French ports and trade ...60 KB (9,430 words) - 18:53, 31 December 2023
- in command, he sailed through the British blockade to return to Paris and resolved ... by land by the Austrians, and under tight blockade by the Royal Navy. In response ...65 KB (9,639 words) - 10:56, 11 April 2024
- which ends with the lifting of the Berlin Blockade in 1949; Trinity, about Irish nationalism, and the sequel, Redemption, covering the early ...24 KB (3,406 words) - 16:05, 28 November 2023
- the Taipings managed to break through the blockade and fight their way to the town of Yongan (not to be confused with Yong'an), which fell ...20 KB (3,050 words) - 13:03, 2 February 2024
- Secret Service, and met at least one blockade runner there. It is possible that it was here that he also met Confederate Secret Service director ...20 KB (3,092 words) - 08:05, 3 August 2022
- but were denied. Instead, Italy initiated a blockade of Fiume while demanding that the plotters surrender. D'Annunzio then declared Fiume an ...19 KB (2,912 words) - 07:39, 15 April 2024
- The Channel Islands (Norman: Îles d'la Manche; French: Îles Anglo-Normandes/Îles de la Manche) are a group of islands in the English ...23 KB (3,402 words) - 01:43, 4 December 2023
- Thomas Edmund Dewey (March 24, 1902 – March 16, 1971) became an American legend for his success in prosecuting organized crime in New York ...21 KB (3,285 words) - 21:07, 30 April 2023
- French Continental System vs. the British naval blockade of French-controlled territory. Due to military shortages and lack of organization in French ...46 KB (6,954 words) - 01:24, 11 November 2022
- reserves became significant due to the British blockade of United States ports. The blockade starved the American military of saltpeter and therefore ...40 KB (6,197 words) - 02:27, 19 December 2022
- assigned to HMS Victory in May 1803. He joined the blockade of Toulon, France, and would not set foot on dry land again for more than two years. Nelson ...22 KB (3,598 words) - 15:08, 2 February 2024
- in 1918, a study of Napoleon’s blockade of England and its relation to the mercantilist system, written by Eli Heckscher who was professor ...27 KB (4,103 words) - 17:22, 29 September 2023
- to partially circumvent the Allied naval blockade, allowing it to avoid the ... Nazi Germany to circumvent the British naval blockade. ===Operation ...51 KB (7,700 words) - 13:06, 10 March 2023
- Philip's fleet had just escaped from the allied blockade and Philip ordered that a squadron head to Athens. The Macedonian squadron sailed ...30 KB (4,711 words) - 00:32, 27 December 2021
- the UNEF withdraw. This action, along with the blockade of the Strait of Tiran, led directly to the Six Day War. During the war, Israeli armed forces ...23 KB (3,489 words) - 21:32, 26 February 2023
- rationing. The Royal Navy's blockade of German ports prevented Germany from importing food, and the Germans failed to introduce food rationing ...24 KB (3,815 words) - 17:18, 4 November 2022
- During most of the revolt the island was also under blockade, which forced the people to supply themselves with everything from electric power ...23 KB (3,412 words) - 11:23, 11 March 2023
- During the Trojan War, the Greeks used a naval blockade to prevent Trojans on the European shore and on Lemnos from coming to the aid of Troy. Once ...26 KB (4,181 words) - 18:25, 2 May 2023
- to withdraw its forces and placed a partial blockade at the 38th Parallel. Li Hongzhang wanted at all costs to avoid a war with Japan, and requested ...25 KB (3,814 words) - 21:35, 4 June 2023
- and civilians were also suffering due to the blockade conditions. Fortunately for the prisoners, food packages provided by the International Red ...27 KB (4,158 words) - 00:40, 12 April 2023
- Britain and the United States, who, with the blockade, captured many Dutch trade and cargo ships in an attempt to disrupt the German war effort. This ...26 KB (3,973 words) - 12:30, 2 October 2020
- [[Image:Seton blockade.jpg|thumb|200 px|right|Native Indians from the Seton Lake Indian Band blockade the BC Rail line in support of Oka, while ...25 KB (3,874 words) - 12:59, 10 March 2023
- attempts to get a legal injunction against the blockade failed in federal court in Miami, on April 23, 1982 Key West mayor Dennis Wardlow and the city ...27 KB (4,181 words) - 17:42, 28 March 2024
- if the Indian Military had chosen to blockade the supply route of the ... Meanwhile, the Indian Navy also readied itself for an attempted blockade ...55 KB (8,309 words) - 08:36, 28 February 2023
- complex by sea, breaking the naval blockade. In 1577, Oda ordered Hashiba Hideyoshi (豊臣秀吉) to expand west and confront the Mori clan ...25 KB (4,007 words) - 23:52, 17 November 2022
- Bahamas prospered as a center of Confederate blockade-runners, bringing out cotton for the mills of England and running in arms and munitions. After ...26 KB (3,773 words) - 15:29, 30 April 2023
- strategy of breaking the British naval blockade of the North Sea and allowing ... as a fleet in being prevented a complete blockade of Germany. Most of the ...56 KB (8,672 words) - 09:48, 22 September 2023
- leaders that if allowed to pass through their blockade, he would negotiate a peaceful conclusion to the war and sell the New Mexico and California territories ...28 KB (4,268 words) - 16:30, 9 November 2022
- The Allied blockade of Germany during World War I (1914-1918) led to food and fuel shortages. Three bombs fell on Munich during French air raids ...26 KB (3,859 words) - 02:35, 11 March 2023
- American sailors by the British Royal Navy, blockade of French ports, and a belief that the British were inciting American Natives to attack U.S. settlements ...28 KB (4,513 words) - 18:55, 7 March 2024
- The port of Amsterdam benefited greatly from the blockade of the port of Antwerp, therefore the merchants in the north began to question the desirability ...28 KB (4,365 words) - 11:02, 23 December 2021
- trying to run against the British blockade (restriction of Jewish immigration were still in place), Britain decided that the mandate was unworkable ...29 KB (4,317 words) - 20:21, 11 August 2023
- certain laws, such as by forming a peaceful blockade or occupying a facility illegally. Protesters practice this non-violent form of civil disorder with ...28 KB (4,286 words) - 22:27, 10 December 2023
- in breaking the Egyptian Navy's blockade of the Red Sea for Israeli or Israel-bound shipping, thus hampering Israel's oil resupply ...55 KB (8,557 words) - 16:54, 4 June 2023
- his far-sightedness, the United States decided to blockade Cuba instead of initiating a military air strike that might have led to nuclear war. His second ...28 KB (4,414 words) - 21:27, 16 April 2023
- passed. Israel maintained a naval and aerial blockade on Lebanon to prevent Hezbollah from smuggling arms. The blockade was lifted on September 8, ...55 KB (7,922 words) - 06:11, 6 March 2023
- of Asan. The Japanese objective was firstly to blockade the Chinese at Asan and then encircle them with their land forces. ====Naval operations==== ...31 KB (4,561 words) - 17:25, 28 March 2024
- or the Far East. He therefore ordered a blockade of West Berlin, which was ... The Berlin Blockade failed due to the unexpected massive aerial resupply ...78 KB (11,862 words) - 20:16, 24 October 2022
- imposed. Ulbricht's proposal for a second air blockade was refused, and the construction of a barrier was permitted provided that it was composed ...32 KB (5,068 words) - 11:04, 28 September 2023
- running a bank, but the devastating Napoleonic blockade sent the family fleeing to Berlin in 1812, then a provincial town. The position there of Jews ...31 KB (4,782 words) - 17:14, 26 March 2024
- and HMCS Athabaskan to enforce the trade blockade against Iraq. The supply ... the invasion of Iraq, and the subsequent blockade were some of the grievances ...62 KB (9,530 words) - 08:21, 8 January 2024
- Constantinople was besieged twice by the Arabs, once in a long blockade between 674 and 678 C.E., and in 717 C.E. The Second Arab siege of Constantinople ...32 KB (5,079 words) - 17:54, 16 May 2020
- The U.S. Navy urged the use of blockade and airpower to bring about Japan's capitulation. They proposed operations to capture airbases in ...36 KB (5,455 words) - 21:51, 17 February 2023
- larger fleet was able to establish an effective blockade for most of the war that restricted the Central Powers' access to many crucial resources ...64 KB (9,669 words) - 10:06, 11 March 2023
- The British government announced a de facto blockade and reinforced its naval force in the Gulf and lodged complaints against Iran before the United ...33 KB (4,921 words) - 19:30, 9 November 2022
- Chester. The English did not attempt a winter blockade, but contented themselves with destroying all the supplies in the neighborhood. Early in 894 ...34 KB (5,332 words) - 20:42, 20 July 2023
- Germany into West Berlin during the 1948-1949 blockade. This costly aerial supplying of West Berlin became known as the Berlin Airlift. ...33 KB (4,974 words) - 12:47, 1 February 2024
- revolts in the Caribbean and United States. The blockade was virtually total. The Vatican withdrew its priests from Haiti, and did not return them until ...32 KB (4,700 words) - 19:05, 27 April 2024
- French Somaliland fell following a British blockade. Free French and Allied forces captured the French colony. A local battalion from French Somaliland ...32 KB (4,757 words) - 16:28, 29 January 2024
