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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 ...

placed a naval "quarantine" (blockade) on Cuba to prevent further ... #Naval Blockade #:For: It would show the United States was serious ...

==Lincoln attempts blockade at Hampton Roads== Valley with gunboats. Lincoln ordered the blockade as hostilities escalated. ...

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 ...

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 ...

likely from starvation, as the Nazi blockade of Leningrad had already ... out of Kharms's apartment during the blockade of Leningrad and kept it ...

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 ...

make a run for Union vessels which were blockade\blockading Charleston harbor ... fleet, which was part of the Union blockade of Confederate ports, making ...

from the instructions, including the blockade of Southern ports, privateering ... original plan was to attempt to run the blockade in the CSS Nashville, a ...

Threatened by a Lombard blockade, Pelagius II sent the future Pope ... Before this could happen, however, the blockade of Rome by the Lombards ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

=== Blockade of Charleston === Blackbeard's chief claim to fame is his blockade of Charleston ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

===Berlin blockade=== the Soviet Union to introduce the Berlin Blockade in an attempt to gain control ...

* Beveridge, William H. Blockade and the Civilian Population. The Clarendon. 1939. * Beveridge, William H. Prices and Wages in England from the ...

*Coulomb blockade thermometer *Oral thermometer Some of the various types of thermometers are described below. == Mercury-in-glass thermometer == ...

secret treaties and the idea of a naval blockade. Despite their own national interests that were in opposition to the fourteen points, both France ...

===Berlin blockade=== the Soviet Union to introduce the Berlin Blockade in an attempt to gain control ...

from the Vistula, and launched a blockade of Elbing and Balga. While the castle withstood Teutonic attacks, the blockade was smashed by cogs. ...

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 ...

SSR instigated a partial railway and air blockade against Armenia, as a response ... result from Armenia's continued blockade of the region in response ...

At the outset of the war, the French government ordered a blockade ... remaining patrolling French ships, the blockade became less and less effective ...

aboard Huáscar, Peru staged a series of blockade runs and harassment raids ... Huáscar and Independencia lifted the blockade of Iquique by Esmeralda ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

loyalist's navy, and the resulting blockade of Montevideo, made the ... cohesion in Argentina, a Spanish blockade in Valparaíso, and the ...

Greece. The Admiral in charge of the blockade was Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh ... Whilst the Great Powers announced a blockade, Greek troops crossed the ...

#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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Members of the Algonquin tribe began a peaceful blockade of a uranium mining operation on their sacred lands north of Kingston, Ontario on June ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

There were ambiguities, however, about how rigorous the blockade would ... 50 percent, then indeed actually ordered blockade. The blockade was a violation ...

surrounding Berlin, to impose an economic blockade of West Berlin. The Allies countered the blockade by airlifting food, fuel, and other ...

embargo, an economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed on Cuba. This, and his social policies, had also earned him the opposition of right-wing ...

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 ...

death, England threatened a naval blockade of Zanzibar that forced the sultan to close its slave market forever. ==Chronology of Events in Livingstone ...

of 1967 to 1970, the Nigerian military formed a blockade around the nation's newly independent southeastern region, Biafra. At this time, France ...

series of confrontations over the Berlin Blockade and the Berlin Wall. The ... Doctrine, the Marshall Plan, the Berlin Blockade and Berlin Airlift, the ...

secret treaties and the idea of a naval blockade. However, Lloyd George was aware of the potential trouble that could come from an embittered ...

* The Blockade Runners, (1876) * Michael Strogoff (Michel Strogoff, 1876) * Off On A Comet (Hector Servadac, 1877) * The Child of the Cavern, ...

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 ...

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 ...

which ends with the lifting of the Berlin Blockade in 1949; Trinity, about Irish nationalism, and the sequel, Redemption, covering the early ...

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 ...

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 ...

but were denied. Instead, Italy initiated a blockade of Fiume while demanding that the plotters surrender. D'Annunzio then declared Fiume an ...

The Channel Islands (Norman: Îles d'la Manche; French: Îles Anglo-Normandes/Îles de la Manche) are a group of islands in the English ...

Thomas Edmund Dewey (March 24, 1902 – March 16, 1971) became an American legend for his success in prosecuting organized crime in New York ...

French Continental System vs. the British naval blockade of French-controlled territory. Due to military shortages and lack of organization in French ...

reserves became significant due to the British blockade of United States ports. The blockade starved the American military of saltpeter and therefore ...

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 ...

in 1918, a study of Napoleon’s blockade of England and its relation to the mercantilist system, written by Eli Heckscher who was professor ...

to partially circumvent the Allied naval blockade, allowing it to avoid the ... Nazi Germany to circumvent the British naval blockade. ===Operation ...

Philip's fleet had just escaped from the allied blockade and Philip ordered that a squadron head to Athens. The Macedonian squadron sailed ...

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 ...

rationing. The Royal Navy's blockade of German ports prevented Germany from importing food, and the Germans failed to introduce food rationing ...

During most of the revolt the island was also under blockade, which forced the people to supply themselves with everything from electric power ...

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 ...

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 ...

and civilians were also suffering due to the blockade conditions. Fortunately for the prisoners, food packages provided by the International Red ...

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 ...

[[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 ...

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 ...

if the Indian Military had chosen to blockade the supply route of the ... Meanwhile, the Indian Navy also readied itself for an attempted blockade ...

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 ...

Bahamas prospered as a center of Confederate blockade-runners, bringing out cotton for the mills of England and running in arms and munitions. After ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

trying to run against the British blockade (restriction of Jewish immigration were still in place), Britain decided that the mandate was unworkable ...

certain laws, such as by forming a peaceful blockade or occupying a facility illegally. Protesters practice this non-violent form of civil disorder with ...

in breaking the Egyptian Navy's blockade of the Red Sea for Israeli or Israel-bound shipping, thus hampering Israel's oil resupply ...

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 ...

passed. Israel maintained a naval and aerial blockade on Lebanon to prevent Hezbollah from smuggling arms. The blockade was lifted on September 8, ...

of Asan. The Japanese objective was firstly to blockade the Chinese at Asan and then encircle them with their land forces. ====Naval operations==== ...

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 ...

imposed. Ulbricht's proposal for a second air blockade was refused, and the construction of a barrier was permitted provided that it was composed ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The U.S. Navy urged the use of blockade and airpower to bring about Japan's capitulation. They proposed operations to capture airbases in ...

larger fleet was able to establish an effective blockade for most of the war that restricted the Central Powers' access to many crucial resources ...

The British government announced a de facto blockade and reinforced its naval force in the Gulf and lodged complaints against Iran before the United ...

Chester. The English did not attempt a winter blockade, but contented themselves with destroying all the supplies in the neighborhood. Early in 894 ...

Germany into West Berlin during the 1948-1949 blockade. This costly aerial supplying of West Berlin became known as the Berlin Airlift. ...

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 ...

French Somaliland fell following a British blockade. Free French and Allied forces captured the French colony. A local battalion from French Somaliland ...

offering refuge and supplies to Confederate blockade runners. The port also saw Canada's first overseas military deployment as a nation to aid the ...

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 ...

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 ...

also sent the Royal Navy, which instigated a blockade of the islands. The isolated French forces, under General Claude-Henri Belgrand de Vaubois, ...

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 ...

naval resources to plunder Spanish ships and blockade the Spanish-controlled southern provinces. ==Economic troubles== Aside from draining state ...

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 ...

#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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

S. coast, it was regularly used by Confederate blockade runners during the American Civil War to evade Union naval vessels and bring desperately needed ...

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. ...

The U.S. responded by placing a naval blockade on Cuba in order to prevent the receipt of further Soviet missile shipments. President Kennedy ...

of the Mongol Empire, under complete economic blockade by Muslim states. In response to Muslim domination on land, Portugal sought an eastward sea route ...

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. ...

former communists) and effectively triggered a blockade. The defection of General Abdul Rashid Dostam and his Uzbek militia, in March 1992, seriously ...

Sweden is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe, bordered by Norway in the west, Finland in the northeast, the Skagerrak ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The treaty and the Soviet Berlin Blockade led to the creation of the Western European Union's Defense Organization in September 1948.David ...

With ruthless intent, Mountjoy attempted to blockade O'Neill's troops and starve his people into submission; the campaign effectively cast ...

prior to an invasion. The submarine blockade and the mining operation, Operation Starvation, had effectively cut off Japan's imports. A ...

plight of the Biagrans caused by the Nigerian blockade during the Nigerian Civil War (1976-70). However, Ziauddin Sardar and others labelRakiya Omaari ...

Nonviolence is the practice of being harmless to self and others under every condition. It comes from the belief that hurting people, animals ...

them with arms and establishing a naval blockade to prevent French reinforcements arriving from Europe. Napoleon withdrew French troops from ...

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 ...

Greece was still dissatisfied and it imposed a trade blockade in February 1994. The sanctions were lifted in September 1995 after Macedonia changed ...

aviation and border troops set up a military blockade of the republic. On October 30, 1994, unmarked Russian aircraft began bombing the capital Grozny ...

previous president had wielded; he proclaimed a blockade, suspended the writ of habeas corpus, spent money without congressional authorization, and frequently ...

citizens scavenging for firewood during an energy blockade in the conflict with Azerbaijan; pollution of Hrazdan (Razdan) and Aras Rivers; diminishing ...

million. The fact that the Allies continued to blockade Germany until after the Treaty of Versailles did not help matters, either. ...

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 ...

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 ...

helped Bonaparte evade the British blockade, thinking that he might act as a Royalist element back in France, but there's no solid evidence ...

and persuaded the Allies to relax their blockade of the Baltic Sea (which had obstructed food supplies to Finland) to allow the food in. ...

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 ...

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 ...

accompanied by a strong Union blockade of Southern ports. This plan, which would have demanded considerable patience on the part of the Northern ...

defeat the United Kingdom and until the British blockade was broken, the "Madagascar Plan" could not be put into effect. Finally, Functionalist ...

which were stopped by the British Naval blockade of Germany. Food prices were first limited, then rationing was introduced. The winter of 1916–17 ...

of Leningrad Nazi Germany, World War II, Blockade |url=https://www.britannica ... Petersburg, including the Museum of the Blockade, which describes the Siege ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

soldiers. Israel initiated an air and naval blockade, airstrikes across much of the country, and ground incursions into southern Lebanon. Hezbollah continuously ...

that "campaigns in the UK against the US blockade of Cuba."[https://web.archive.org/web/20110718215408/http://www.cuba-solidarity.org/aims ...

German colonization, which included a food blockade on Kiev. Under these circumstances, most people living on the occupied territory opposed the Nazis. ...

soldiers. Israel initiated an air and naval blockade, air strikes across much of the country, and ground incursions into southern Lebanon. Hezbollah continuously ...

to remove him by assassination, economic blockade, and counter-revolution, including the Bay of Pigs Invasion of 1961. In response to U.S. nuclear ...

Spain was put under a British blockade, and her colonies—for the first time separated from their colonial rulers—began to trade independently ...