* Blockade of Africa

Shortly after the outbreak of war on September 3, 1939, Rennie began to receive offers for larger film roles, starting with his first ( small ) billed performance in the wartime morale booster The Big Blockade, seen in March 1940.

Plans for converting the area into allotment gardens were shelved due to the Berlin Blockade, which began on 24 June 1948.

Much cooperation continued between the British and American militaries after the war including the Combined Chiefs of Staff structure, and it was used again during the Berlin Blockade of 1948 even as negotiations began that resulted in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

Later, however, as the Blockade began to prevent American munitions manufacturers from trading with Germany, the Ambassador began financing sabotage missions in order to obstruct arms shipments to Germany's enemies.

The refusal of the Portuguese government to join the Continental Blockade against Britain culminated in the 1807 Franco-Spanish invasion led by General Junot.

This was particularly true during the time of the American Civil War ( 1861 – 1865 ) when the cotton prices skyrocketed due to the Blockade of the South and its cotton fields.

Blockade runners have always been considered enemy combatants by the blockading party and have been fired upon or captured when detected.

Blockade runners are often the subject of press coverage when they reach port, giving the act of blockade running a propaganda value.

This was particularly true during the time of the American Civil War ( 1861 – 1865 ) when the cotton prices skyrocketed due to the Blockade of the South and its cotton fields.

The Lang family's happiness was cut short in June when they heard of the Berlin Blockade.

However, the success of the Russian army on the land forced Sweden to sign peace treaties with Russia in 1809 and with France in 1810 and to join the Continental Blockade against Britain.

However, Britain and Spain were often at war during this period, fighting one another in the War of the Quadruple Alliance ( 1718 – 20 ), the Blockade of Porto Bello ( 1726 ) and the Anglo-Spanish War ( 1727 – 1729 ).

He even participated in France's Continental Blockade of Great Britain, over the objections of his Secretary of State, Consalvi, who was forced to resign.

By 1811, all of the Imperial Cities had lost their independence — Augsburg and Nuremberg had been annexed by Bavaria, Frankfurt had become the center of the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt, a Napoleonic puppet state, and the three Hanseatic cities had been directly annexed by France as part of its effort to enforce the Continental Blockade against Britain.

The Continental System or Continental Blockade ( known in French as Blocus continental ) was the foreign policy of Napoleon I of France in his struggle against the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland during the Napoleonic Wars.

Since the Second World War and the subsequent Berlin Blockade, the United States has maintained substantial forces in Great Britain.

Hundreds of Blockade runners would use the port of Halifax to ship their goods between Britain and the Confederate States.

The press reported that " atomic-capable " B-29s were deployed to Britain in mid-1948 during the Berlin Blockade, by which time the US possessed about 50 atomic weapons.

The requirement of joining France's Continental Blockade against Britain was a serious disruption of Russian commerce, and in 1810 Alexander repudiated the obligation.

The requirement of joining France's Continental Blockade against Britain was a serious disruption of Russian commerce, and in 1810 Alexander repudiated the obligation.

Blockade runners based in Tampa were able to repeatedly slip through the blockade to trade cattle and citrus for needed supplies, mainly with Spanish Cuba.

In 1806, as Napoleon imposed the Continental Blockade to prevent trade between Continental Europe and the United Kingdom, it became impossible for Rieter to get spare parts for its British textile machinery.

As the Napoleonic wars ended so the smuggling trade which had long flourished all along the south coast again increased in scope and intensity, leading to the establishment of the Coast Blockade.

The three major tasks of the Confederate Navy during the whole of its existence were the protection of Southern harbors and coastlines from outside invasion, making the war costly for the United States by attacking U. S. merchant ships world-wide and breaking the Union Blockade by drawing off U. S. Navy ships in pursuit of the Confederate raiders.

* During the Berlin Blockade, a Soviet radio tower was making life difficult for the newly constructed Tegel Airfield, so French general Jean Ganeval decided to simply blow it up.

During the Berlin Blockade, the Uprising of 1953 and the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, Rudolph-Wilde-Platz in front of the building became a gathering place for protest rallies.

The airbridge methods which were developed and used extensively in the Burma Campaign for supplying the Chindits and other units, including those in sieges such as Imphal, as well as flying the Hump into China, allowed the western powers to develop air lift expertise which would prove vital during the Cold War Berlin Blockade.

* Interview about the Berlin Blockade for the WGBH series, * War and Peace in the Nuclear Age

McCarthyism coincided with increased popular fear of communist espionage consequent to a Soviet Eastern Europe, the Berlin Blockade ( 1948 – 49 ), the Chinese Civil War, the confessions of spying for the Soviet Union given by several high-ranking U. S. government officials, and the Korean War.

He has been criticized for his failures to facilitate negotiation in the Berlin Blockade, as well as his failure to bring about a swifter end to the Korean War.

Blockade running is the practice of delivering cargo ( food, for example ) to a blockaded area.

During the French Blockade ( 1798 – 1800 ), St. Mary's Tower served as a prison for suspected spies.

In 2010, the band released a split 7 " with The Endless Blockade for Relapse Records and a split 5 " with A. N. S.

He returned to the Star in 1949 — this time as a freelancer — for one final international tour, which included his coverage of the end of the Berlin Blockade.

On June 26, 1948, two days after the Soviets imposed the Berlin Blockade, Clay gave the order for the Berlin Airlift ( only afterwards receiving authorization from President Truman ).

RAF Gatow has the unique and unlikely distinction of being the base for the only known operational use of flying boats in central Europe, during the Berlin Blockade, on the nearby Großer Wannsee in the Havel river.

After the Berlin Blockade, RAF Gatow served as an airfield for the British Army's Berlin Infantry Brigade, and was prepared to revert to its role as a supply base, if another Berlin Airlift to West Berlin ever became necessary.

She wrote the lyrics and music for the Broadway musical Count Me In ( 1942 ) She wrote songs for movies including Champagne Waltz ( 1937 ) and Blockade ( 1938 ) and wrote the scores for movies including the Cowan produced The Story of G. I. Joe ( 1945 ), the film adaptation of the Weill / Nash musical One Touch of Venus ( 1948 ), and the Marx Brothers Love Happy ( 1949 ).

The town served a minor role in the French Blockade of 1799 / 1801 as a depot for soldiers.

The station was renamed to RAF Blackbushe on the 18 November 1944 and it became an airfield for the Dakotas of RAF Transport Command during the 1948 airlift during the Berlin Blockade.

On April 19, 1861, President Lincoln issued a Proclamation of Blockade Against Southern Ports: Whereas an insurrection against the Government of the United States has broken out in the States of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas, and the laws of the United States for the collection of the revenue cannot be effectually executed therein comformably to that provision of the Constitution which requires duties to be uniform throughout the United States: