American Civil War (section Union blockade) S. Grant's command of all Union armies in 1864. Inflicting an ever-tightening naval blockade of Confederate ports, the Union marshaled resources and manpower... 254 KB (28,747 words) - 18:39, 13 April 2024 |
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 |
Volumes of material have been written about the Blockade runners who evaded Union ships on blockade patrol, usually at night, and who moved cargo and... 307 KB (35,226 words) - 17:55, 14 April 2024 |
Anaconda Plan (category Blockades) 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 would be... 33 KB (4,818 words) - 13:15, 1 April 2024 |
The Berlin Blockade (24 June 1948 – 12 May 1949) was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War. During the multinational occupation of... 94 KB (12,111 words) - 16:45, 20 March 2024 |
of Hampton Roads began on March 8, 1862, when Virginia engaged the blockading Union fleet. Despite an all-out effort to complete her, the new ironclad... 34 KB (4,038 words) - 02:10, 14 March 2024 |
United States Navy screw sloop-of-war Housatonic, which had been on Union blockade-duty in Charleston's outer harbor. Hunley did not survive the attack... 58 KB (6,775 words) - 14:41, 14 March 2024 |
USS Atlanta (1861) (category Blockade runners of the American Civil War) served in the Confederate and Union Navies during the American Civil War. She was converted from a British-built blockade runner named Fingal by the Confederacy... 26 KB (3,023 words) - 18:21, 23 January 2024 |
USS Advance (1862) (redirect from Advance (blockade runner)) originally the blockade runner Advance captured by the Union Navy during the latter part of the American Civil War. She was purchased by the Union Navy and... 17 KB (1,951 words) - 07:24, 31 March 2024 |
South's most famous Confederate blockade runners, successfully making more than twenty runs through the Union blockade. The Mississippi River steamboat... 160 KB (17,966 words) - 02:29, 15 April 2024 |
1865 and was fleet captain of the West India Squadron enforcing the Union blockade from 1865 to 1866. Following the war, with a commission as captain,... 10 KB (1,231 words) - 18:09, 2 January 2024 |
a British merchant captain named James Playfair who must break the Union blockade of Charleston harbor in South Carolina to trade supplies for cotton... 3 KB (200 words) - 15:38, 14 March 2023 |
Atlantic Blockading Squadron was a unit of the United States Navy created in the early days of the American Civil War to enforce the Union blockade of the... 12 KB (879 words) - 16:57, 8 April 2021 |
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 |
economic blockade of Lithuania (Lithuanian: Lietuvos ekonominė blokada, Russian: экономическая блокада Литвы) was imposed by the Soviet Union on Lithuania... 77 KB (7,947 words) - 16:14, 2 April 2024 |
challenge to the Union blockade. From the perspective of the South, British policy amounted to de facto support for the Union blockade and caused great... 114 KB (17,227 words) - 02:57, 26 March 2024 |
Samuel Francis Du Pont (category Union Navy admirals) operations. In the American Civil War, he played a major role in making the Union blockade effective, but was controversially blamed for the failed attack on Charleston... 20 KB (2,392 words) - 18:41, 3 April 2024 |
The blockade of Wonsan, or the siege of Wonsan, from February 16, 1951, to July 27, 1953, during the Korean War, was the longest naval blockade in modern... 57 KB (7,732 words) - 21:53, 7 April 2024 |
remained open (with Union blockades, but guarded by forts, floating mines, and obstacle paths) for almost 4 years using blockade runners, until the Battle... 48 KB (5,694 words) - 14:03, 9 April 2024 |