Another strategy -- bolder and tougher -- was also attracting notice in Washington: a naval and air blockade to cut Cuba off from the world, destroy Castro.

The Rideau Canal was built as a result of the War of 1812 to provide military transportation between the British colonies of Upper Canada and Lower Canada as an alternative to part of the St. Lawrence River, which was susceptible to blockade by the United States.

As part of the blockade, the US military was put on high alert to enforce the blockade and to be ready to invade Cuba at a moment's notice.

However, the term " blockade " was problematic.

Admiral Anderson, Chief of Naval Operations wrote a position paper that helped Kennedy to differentiate between what they termed a " quarantine " of offensive weapons and a blockade of all materials, claiming that a classic blockade was not the original intention.

Reservations about the plan continued to be voiced as late as the twenty-first, however, the paramount one being that once the blockade was put into effect, the Soviets would rush to complete some of the missiles.

The heavy cruiser USS Newport News was designated flagship for the blockade, with the USS Leary ( DD-879 ) as Newport News destroyer escort.

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

Almost all of Haganah's armoured vehicles had been destroyed, the blockade was in full operation, and hundreds of Haganah members who had tried to bring supplies into the city were killed.

At the same time, with the aid of numerous merchant ships converted to auxiliary cruisers, a loose naval blockade on the Ottoman coasts from the Dardanelles to Suez was instituted, which disrupted the Ottomans ' flow of supplies ( only the Black Sea routes to Romania remained open ) and left some 250, 000 Ottoman troops immobilized in Asia.

A naval blockade extending from the pre-war Greek border to Vlorë was also instituted on 3 December, isolating the newly established Provisional Government of Albania based there from any outside support.

From the British point of view, it was regarded as highly desirable to keep Romania and its oil out of German hands ; since Germany had hardly any natural supplies of oil, the ability of the Royal Navy to successfully impose a blockade represented a British trump card both to deter war, and if necessary, win a war.

Ribbentrop argued that with Soviet economic support ( especially in the form of oil ), Germany was now immune to the effects of a British naval blockade, and as such, the British would never take on Germany.

Because of the Balkans were rich in raw materials like iron, zinc and above all oil that could help Germany survive a British blockade, it was viewed as highly important by the Allies to keep German influence in the Balkans to a minimum, hence British efforts to link British promises to support Turkey in the event of an Italian attack in exchange for Turkish promises to help defend Romania from a German attack.

It was obvious to Josef Stalin's strategists that the United States did not have enough nuclear weapons to deal simultaneously with the Berlin blockade and the Communists ' victory in China.

The conflict started on 12 July 2006, and continued until a United Nations-brokered ceasefire went into effect in the morning on 14 August 2006, though it formally ended on 8 September 2006 when Israel lifted its naval blockade of Lebanon, leaving more than 1500 dead civilians and still the Israeli army couldn't penetrate the Lebanese land borders and was driven back by Hezbollah suffering heavy casualties and defeated.

Greece was still dissatisfied and it imposed a trade blockade in February 1994.

English and German pencils were not available to the French during the Napoleonic Wars ; France, under naval blockade imposed by Great Britain, was unable to import the pure graphite sticks from the British Grey Knotts mines – the only known source in the world.

During the Napoleonic Wars, sugar beet production increased in continental Europe because of the difficulty of importing sugar at times in which shipping was subject to blockade.

Although postulated for about 20 years based on the D < sub > 2 </ sub > blockade effect common to all antipsychotics, it was not until the mid-1990s that PET and SPET imaging studies provided supporting evidence.

But on 5 August 1936 the so-called Convoy de la victoria was able to bring at least 2, 500 men across the strait breaking the republican blockade.

On August 6th Washington formally requested the Europeans to agree to follow the 1908 Declaration of London, which " favored the neutrals ' right to trade as against the belligerents ' right to blockade ".

They settle on a step less than a blockade, which is formally regarded as an act of war.

Sweden sued for peace with France in 1810 and then formally joined the blockade against Britain as required by the Continental System.

In 1949, Stalin conceded defeat and ended the blockade.

All these sectors had suffered enormously from the war: the British blockade and French and British privateering had almost brought marine trade to a standstill, whereas a commercial treaty with France ( which would have ended French discrimination of Dutch trade in industrial goods ) proved an ever-receding fata morgana.

The Berlin Crisis ended in May 1949, when the Russians lifted the blockade.

In his absence a raid on St Malo had ended badly with the Battle of St Cast, which had seen a British force defeated and captured-bringing an end to the policy of descents, although it was now to be replaced with a far tighter blockade.

Just in time, three Burgundian youngsters learn about this crisis and toss food across the border, setting an example for sympathetic Londoners ; they begin throwing food parcels across the barrier in an improvised " airlift ", echoing the one that ended the Berlin blockade.

After the first Gulf War ended in 1991, air power played a significant role in containing Saddam Hussein ’ s regime in Iraq, as did a naval blockade and United Nations economic sanctions.

In 1793, the French Revolutionary Wars between Great Britain and France began, and a truce negotiated between Portugal and Algiers ended Portugal's blockade of the Strait of Gibraltar which had kept the Barbary pirates in the Mediterranean.

In Britain the battle was regarded as the most mortifying defeat ; the Franco-Spanish fleet successfully ended the British blockade and inflicted considerably more damage to the British than they received, causing the British to withdraw to Minorca in need of heavy repairs.

He rejoined the Channel blockade fleet in 1801 on HMS Princess Royal and remained there until his career afloat ended in 1802.

These were involved in the Paknam incident of July 13, 1893, which ended the Franco-Siamese War with a French naval blockade of Bangkok.

Attempts to run the blockade and resupply Malta proved to be costly and often ended in failure ; the two-pronged effort to resupply Malta during June 1942 — known as Operations Harpoon ( from Gibraltar ) and Vigorous ( from Alexandria, Egypt )— were unsuccessful, only two merchantmen from Harpoon and none from Vigorous reached Malta, while many others ( including the only tanker included in Harpoon ) were sunk, and the escorting warships also suffered heavy casualties.

The Spanish river blockade had ended in 1629.

Jadranka Kosor signed an agreement with Borut Pahor, the premier of Slovenia, in November 2009, that ended Slovenia's blockade of Croatia's EU accession and allowed Croatian EU entry negotiations to proceed.

When the blockade ended the Squadron returned to the United Kingdom, moving to RAF Topcliffe on 22 August 1949, operating in support of airborne forces, moving to RAF Abingdon in May 1953.

Maffit made several more successful runs through the Union blockade in Owl before the war ended.

Andrea Doria's offensive in Genoa ( where he soon broke the blockade of the city and forced the surrender of the French at Savona ), together with the decisive defeat of a French relief force under Francis de Bourbon, Comte de St. Pol at the Battle of Landriano, ended Francis's hopes of regaining his hold on Italy.

The mutiny virtually destroyed two of Dom Pedro's supposed best units and ended his hopes for a land victory to augment his successful naval blockade of Argentina.

The blockade lasted two months and the affair ended only when the Greek government agreed to compensate Pacifico.