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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 through denial of supply, usually to cause military exhaustion and starvation as an economic blockade in addition to restricting movement of enemy troops.
Although primitive naval blockades had been in use for millennia, they were limited by the time ships were able to stay at sea uninterruptedly. [7] The first successful attempts at establishing a full naval blockade were made by the British Royal Navy during the Seven Years' War (1754–1763) against France. [8]
Pages in category "Blockades by the United Kingdom" ... This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Blockade of Africa; Anglo-French blockade of the Río de la Plata; B.
The whaler on HMS Sheffield being manned with an armed boarding party to check a neutral vessel stopped at sea, 20 Oct 1941. The Blockade of Germany (1939–1945), also known as the Economic War, involved operations carried out during World War II by the British Empire and by France in order to restrict the supplies of minerals, fuel, metals, food and textiles needed by Nazi Germany – and ...
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Eventually, it became clear that the British measures all but prevented maritime neutral trade, including foodstuffs, with the Central Powers. [16] While the British avoided the use of the word "blockade" in the above pronouncements, their actions presented an effective "distant blockade", in direct contravention of much of the London Declaration.
The United States insisted that the belligerent nations fighting in World War I abide by the Declaration, while the British and Germans increasingly ignored it. The British geostrategist and naval historian Sir Julian Corbett argued strongly against the provisions of the Declaration, which sought to outlaw 'general capture' of enemy commerce on ...
The blockade did not cause significant economic damage to the British, although British exports to the continent as a proportion of the country's total trade dropped from 55% to 25% between 1802 and 1806. [6] However, the British economy suffered greatly from 1810 to 1812, especially in terms of high unemployment and inflation.