6 sentences with 'blockade'
Example sentences and phrases with the word blockade and other words derived from it.
• « Sometime around 330 BCE, about the same time Alexander the Great set out to conquer the Persian Empire, Pytheas evaded the Carthaginian blockade and sailed into the waters of the Atlantic. »
• « Mark Antony and Cleopatra's soldiers starved to death due to a successful blockade engineered by Octavian and his friend and commander-in-chief Agrippa, and the unhappy couple committed suicide the following year in exile. »
• « As Cold War tensions mounted, Stalin ordered a blockade of all supplies going to Berlin's western zones. The US led a massive airlift of food and supplies for nearly a year, while both sides carefully avoided armed confrontation. In the end, the Soviets abandoned the blockade, and West Berlin became a single western camp site in the middle of communist East Germany. »
• « The shortage of newsprint caused by the blockade has forced the newspaper to reduce its size. It used to have twenty-odd pages and a circulation of about 60,000 copies; now it has eight pages and only 4,000 copies are printed. »
• « In April 1814, Admiral Brown completed the blockade of the city of Montevideo and on 17 May he defeated and almost destroyed the enemy squadron when it tried to break the siege. The clash was called the Battle of Montevideo. »
• « First conflict with France: as part of its policy of expansion around the world, France attempted in 1838 to provoke a confrontation with the Argentine Confederation. A French squadron blockaded the port of Buenos Aires and seized Martin Garcia Island. In 1840 the aggressors reached an agreement with the confederation, lifted the blockade and returned the island. »