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  • Thumbnail for Blockade runners of the American Civil War
    During the American Civil War, blockade runners were used to get supplies through the Union blockade of the Confederate States of America that extended...
    73 KB (8,154 words) - 05:32, 1 April 2024
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    takeover in 2007, led by Israel and supported by Egypt. The blockade's current stated aim is to prevent the smuggling of weapons into Gaza; previously stated...
    242 KB (26,030 words) - 16:33, 7 June 2024
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    since blockading fleets would not hesitate to fire on them. However, the potential profits (economically or militarily) from a successful blockade run are...
    16 KB (1,564 words) - 23:27, 25 May 2024
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    The Union blockade in the American Civil War was a naval strategy by the United States to prevent the Confederacy from trading. The blockade was proclaimed...
    54 KB (6,574 words) - 10:46, 27 May 2024
  • USS Virginia (1776) (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships)
    Nicholson again tried to run the blockade, he sent Lt. Barney ahead in the schooner Dolphin to reconnoiter the positions of the British warships. Dolphin...
    7 KB (727 words) - 03:09, 14 March 2024
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    Anaconda Plan (category Blockades)
    the plan emphasized a Union blockade of the Southern ports and called for an advance down the Mississippi River to cut the South in two. Because the blockade...
    33 KB (4,818 words) - 02:16, 30 May 2024
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    The blockade of Nagorno-Karabakh was an event in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. The region was disputed between Azerbaijan and the breakaway Republic of...
    281 KB (27,808 words) - 13:16, 5 June 2024
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    9 October 2023, Israel intensified the blockade of the Gaza Strip after the 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel and the ensuing Israel–Hamas war. Israel's...
    58 KB (4,868 words) - 11:52, 5 June 2024
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    USS President (1800) (category Sailing frigates of the United States Navy)
    been blockaded in New York for a year by the Royal Navy, President attempted to run the blockade, and was chased by a blockading squadron. During the chase...
    44 KB (5,088 words) - 18:08, 4 April 2024
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    J. D. H. Stewart (category British Army personnel of the Mahdist War)
    Gordon to Khartoum in 1884 as his assistant. He died in September 1884 attempting to run the blockade from the besieged city at the hands of the Manasir...
    5 KB (468 words) - 21:52, 31 January 2023
  • three-chapter series, with the subtitle Mafūgai Kessha, was published in the same magazine from January to March 2009. Blood Blockade Battlefront was later...
    47 KB (3,636 words) - 15:15, 5 June 2024
  • Battle of Sincouwaan (category Battles involving the Ming dynasty)
    being able to gain a foothold in China they decided to run the blockade and managed to escape with the loss of two ships and several dozen men. The battle...
    24 KB (3,401 words) - 00:45, 5 February 2024
  • Qui-Gon Jinn (category Star Wars: The Clone Wars characters)
    their host. The Jedi retreat to the planet and rescue its besieged Queen, Padmé Amidala. Their attempt to run the blockade and make way for the galactic...
    30 KB (3,786 words) - 17:40, 24 May 2024
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    cannon to run the blockade into the port of Wilmington alone, while cotton sufficient to pay for these purchases was exported[. I]t is evident that the blockade...
    39 KB (4,330 words) - 15:54, 16 May 2024
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    Augustus Charles Hobart-Hampden (category Immigrants to the Ottoman Empire)
    command of a blockade runner. He had the good fortune to run the blockade eighteen times, conveying war material to Charleston and returning with a cargo...
    6 KB (566 words) - 12:50, 30 March 2024
  • The list of blockades informs about blockades that were carried out either on land, or in the maritime and air spaces in the effort to defeat opponents...
    27 KB (375 words) - 18:50, 4 April 2024
  • USS New Berne (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships)
    reportedly attempting to run the blockade near the entrance to Chesapeake Bay. She did not catch this elusive steamer but had better luck the following spring...
    7 KB (583 words) - 13:31, 1 May 2023
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    cannon to run the blockade into the port of Wilmington alone, while cotton sufficient to pay for these purchases was exported[. I]t is evident that the blockade...
    125 KB (14,623 words) - 14:15, 10 June 2024
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    North American B-25 Mitchell (category World War II bombers of the United States)
    during the last few months of the Pacific war. Their primary mission was the long-range interdiction of enemy shipping trying to run the blockade, which...
    72 KB (9,514 words) - 09:47, 18 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Battle of the River Plate
    disadvantage, the British had the upper hand strategically since any raider returning to Germany would have to run the blockade of the North Sea and might...
    65 KB (7,382 words) - 00:12, 18 May 2024
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