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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
