Examples of 'union blockade' in a sentence

Meaning of "union blockade"

The Union Blockade was the strategy of the Union Navy during the American Civil War to prevent the Confederacy from trading and receiving supplies from foreign countries

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Run the union blockade.
The last ironclad ship to run the union blockade.
Scott argued that a Union blockade of the main ports would weaken the Confederate economy.
The railroads were also developing at the time of the union blockade.
Supplying the Union blockade vessels.
One of the first steps in such operations was the imposition of the Union blockade.
The Union blockade ended trade with the Confederate states.
Those that remained were pressed into being Union blockade runners.
The Union blockade in from the Bahamas.
Her primary task was to prevent ships from penetrating the Union blockade of Southern ports.
Thus, most economists give the Union blockade a prominent role in the outcome of the war.
These ships had large iron rams would have destroyed the Union blockade.
The Virginia was attempting to break the Union blockade that was strangling the Confederacy.
It remained a rural backwater during the Civil War and suffered greatly during the Union blockade.
Joining the Union blockade.

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Supporters, and also play host to a few contingents of Union blockade.
The Navy also began the Union blockade of Pensacola harbor.
The Union blockade of the South, however, made imports via blockade runners difficult and expensive.
Virginia sails off to break the Union blockade at Hampton Roads.
Union, The port of Savannah was closed to the Confederacy early, extending the Union blockade.
Her task was to participate in the Union blockade of the Confederate States of America.
Okay, let us get back to the union blockade.
During the Civil War, the Union blockade shut down 95 percent of the export business.
Nonetheless, five out of six attempts to evade the Union blockade were successful.
With no European allies and the Union blockade succeeding, the South 's economy tanked.
My grandfather died slipping a sloop … through the Union blockade at Charleston.
She successfully ran the Union blockade in 1863 and survived the war.
During the Civil War, gunrunners would run the Union blockade in from the Bahamas.
Lillian 's father was a merchant seaman who ran the Union blockade during the U.S. Civil War.

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