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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) - 17:04, 10 April 2023
- 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
- The treaty and the Soviet Berlin Blockade led to the creation of the Western European Union's Defense Organization in September 1948.David ...52 KB (7,555 words) - 20:25, 17 March 2024
- With ruthless intent, Mountjoy attempted to blockade O'Neill's troops and starve his people into submission; the campaign effectively cast ...47 KB (7,593 words) - 16:23, 13 February 2024
- prior to an invasion. The submarine blockade and the mining operation, Operation Starvation, had effectively cut off Japan's imports. A ...48 KB (7,479 words) - 07:20, 17 November 2023
- plight of the Biagrans caused by the Nigerian blockade during the Nigerian Civil War (1976-70). However, Ziauddin Sardar and others labelRakiya Omaari ...50 KB (7,266 words) - 04:29, 11 March 2023
- Nonviolence is the practice of being harmless to self and others under every condition. It comes from the belief that hurting people, animals ...51 KB (7,370 words) - 02:40, 16 November 2022
- them with arms and establishing a naval blockade to prevent French reinforcements arriving from Europe. Napoleon withdrew French troops from ...48 KB (7,305 words) - 01:24, 11 November 2022
- A second carrier unit, Task Force 95, served as a blockade force in the Yellow Sea off the west coast of North Korea. The task force consisted ...53 KB (8,096 words) - 07:01, 16 June 2023
- Greece was still dissatisfied and it imposed a trade blockade in February 1994. The sanctions were lifted in September 1995 after Macedonia changed ...50 KB (7,230 words) - 10:05, 11 March 2023
- aviation and border troops set up a military blockade of the republic. On October 30, 1994, unmarked Russian aircraft began bombing the capital Grozny ...53 KB (7,700 words) - 19:54, 26 March 2024
- previous president had wielded; he proclaimed a blockade, suspended the writ of habeas corpus, spent money without congressional authorization, and frequently ...51 KB (7,956 words) - 06:30, 14 June 2023
- citizens scavenging for firewood during an energy blockade in the conflict with Azerbaijan; pollution of Hrazdan (Razdan) and Aras Rivers; diminishing ...47 KB (6,850 words) - 03:48, 15 August 2023
- million. The fact that the Allies continued to blockade Germany until after the Treaty of Versailles did not help matters, either. ...56 KB (8,410 words) - 23:27, 3 May 2023
- During the Leningrad Blockade he was sent to his hometown to manage the construction of an ice road and a pipeline across the Lake Ladoga.Gregory ...60 KB (8,496 words) - 22:35, 29 April 2023
- to have also served aboard ship in the naval blockade of the Barbary pirate-den of Algiers. Back in London by February 1671, Churchill's ...54 KB (8,414 words) - 17:21, 16 December 2022
- helped Bonaparte evade the British blockade, thinking that he might act as a Royalist element back in France, but there's no solid evidence ...53 KB (8,268 words) - 01:21, 11 November 2022
- and persuaded the Allies to relax their blockade of the Baltic Sea (which had obstructed food supplies to Finland) to allow the food in. ...60 KB (8,826 words) - 19:50, 26 March 2024
- naval battle of Oliwa, breaking Swedish sea blockade in 1627. On the Black Sea Cossacks with their small boats (czajka) were known for their plundering ...62 KB (8,547 words) - 08:32, 24 November 2022
- to the mission of the Vixen to run the Russian blockade of Circassia in the late 1830s. In 1833 and 1835, his proposals to afford material aid ...66 KB (10,174 words) - 15:23, 25 January 2023
- accompanied by a strong Union blockade of Southern ports. This plan, which would have demanded considerable patience on the part of the Northern ...67 KB (10,321 words) - 07:02, 18 April 2024
- defeat the United Kingdom and until the British blockade was broken, the "Madagascar Plan" could not be put into effect. Finally, Functionalist ...63 KB (9,654 words) - 20:59, 31 December 2023
- which were stopped by the British Naval blockade of Germany. Food prices were first limited, then rationing was introduced. The winter of 1916–17 ...115 KB (16,736 words) - 17:52, 14 December 2023
- of Leningrad Nazi Germany, World War II, Blockade |url=https://www.britannica ... Petersburg, including the Museum of the Blockade, which describes the Siege ...163 KB (21,399 words) - 17:45, 1 February 2024
- on the sea for more than 3,000 years. The naval blockade of a port can be used to cut off food and supplies in time of war. In about 1210 B.C., Suppiluliuma ...69 KB (10,326 words) - 23:04, 22 April 2023
- ally against the Aztecs. Due to a commercial blockade by the Aztecs, Tlaxcala was poor, lacking, among other things, both salt and cotton cloth, so ...74 KB (12,378 words) - 15:44, 25 January 2023
- not be fully felt until 1918. The British naval blockade of Germany began to have a serious impact on morale and productivity on the German home front ...72 KB (11,195 words) - 13:50, 20 May 2023
- German government might be destabilized by a blockade, as it had been in the First World War. In the event the Nazi regime would not collapse, a possibility ...78 KB (12,110 words) - 11:42, 20 September 2023
- soldiers. Israel initiated an air and naval blockade, airstrikes across much of the country, and ground incursions into southern Lebanon. Hezbollah continuously ...69 KB (10,208 words) - 15:25, 19 March 2023
- that "campaigns in the UK against the US blockade of Cuba."[https://web.archive.org/web/20110718215408/http://www.cuba-solidarity.org/aims ...89 KB (13,120 words) - 22:57, 30 March 2023
- German colonization, which included a food blockade on Kiev. Under these circumstances, most people living on the occupied territory opposed the Nazis. ...72 KB (10,102 words) - 01:29, 3 May 2023
- soldiers. Israel initiated an air and naval blockade, air strikes across much of the country, and ground incursions into southern Lebanon. Hezbollah continuously ...86 KB (12,843 words) - 06:24, 18 November 2022
- to remove him by assassination, economic blockade, and counter-revolution, including the Bay of Pigs Invasion of 1961. In response to U.S. nuclear ...103 KB (15,063 words) - 17:34, 26 March 2024
- Spain was put under a British blockade, and her colonies—for the first time separated from their colonial rulers—began to trade independently ...115 KB (17,210 words) - 19:06, 7 February 2023
