Definitionadj. blocking entrance to and exit from seaports and harbors
Last update: June 12, 2015
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When, however, the Civil War began, he volunteered into the navy, was rated acting master's mate, and became a midshipman in October 1861, and a lieutenant in July 1862, serving in the North Atlantic blockading squadron. [Please select]
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The British were blockading in Narragansett Bay the French fleet which lay there. [Please select]
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Of course you have observed that the blockading squadrons in the Gulf have been greatly reduced. [Please select]
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I may pick up a few store-ships, but blockading is always dull work. [Please select]
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He came North and was appointed to the command of the blockading squadron off Wilmington. [Please select]
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"We have not yet found means," replied Lord Hastings, "of effectually blockading the submarine." [Please select]
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The quarry was the frigate _Belvidera_, the most offensive of the British blockading force. [Please select]
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