Still Charles believed it possible to carry on the war, and especially to send relief to La Rochelle, now strictly blockaded by the forces of the French crown.
But Alfred blockaded them first in Wareham and then in Exeter.
He beat them at Edington in Wiltshire, blockaded them in their great camp at Chippenham, and in fourteen days starved them into surrender.
La Rochelle was invested, beat back many assaults, was blockaded and endured famine, and in the end compelled its enemies to retire from its walls.
After the failure of an attempt to take it by assault, La Chatre, the general of the besieging army, blockaded the town in the closest fashion.
The city, though blockaded on every side, made a desperate defence for nearly two years.
Copronymus) had unsuccessfully blockaded Malatia; but five years later he took it by force and razed its wall to the ground.
In his sober moments, however, he had been slyly measuring the Company's strength; and six months later he came back with a larger force, and blockaded Madras.
A Federal flotilla was stationed across the Potomac at Piney Point, Maryland, and although this river was not formally blockaded during the war, it was patrolled, and the smaller rivers were patrolled from time to time.
At that time Hampton Roads was blockaded by Union naval forces, and the rivers were patrolled by them.
Early in 1814, he entered the neutral harbor of Valparaiso, where he was blockaded by two British vessels that had long been searching for him.
It was blockaded closely, but the Confederate cruisers succeeded now and then in slipping in and out, while a number of ironclads were in process of building, and threatened to break the blockade.
Bonaparte retaliated with the famous Berlin Decree, which blockaded the British Islands.
The Mediterranean fleet under Hood sailed in June and blockaded Toulon.
The Spaniards at once blockaded Gibraltar, then under the command of General Eliott, and began that three years' siege which is one of the most honourable incidents in our military history.
Among other operations in the Mediterranean a small British force took Minorca from the Spaniards in November without the loss of a man, and British and Portuguese shipsblockaded Valetta and compelled the surrender of Gozo.
For five months he blockaded Parma, and the city was at the last gasp, when he imprudently dismissed a part of his troops.
By the end of 1175 he was virtually blockaded in Pavia with a dwindling remnant of his army.
The Alpine passes were so effectually blockaded that Frederic was left entirely dependent on his Sicilian forces.
In these straits, the factories have recourse by canoes to the smaller rivers, which are neither entered by sea-going vessels, nor blockaded for the caravans of interior chiefs.
For several months this savage had been blockaded in his stockade by Shiakar's warriors.
As yet the three travellers were ignorant that the place wasblockaded by the guerilla of Arroyo.
This required to be done by stealth; for, although Don Rafael had witnessed the departure of the guerilleros from the ford, he did not know whether those who blockaded the hacienda had also gone away.
And above, formidable battering-rams of snags sawed their black heads up and down defiantly, as if Nature herself had blockaded the way with a chevaux de frise.
The entire Brazilian navy had taken sides with the insurgents and completely blockaded the harbor of Rio de Janeiro.
The admiral ran ashore in the Bay of Le Croisic and burned his own vessel; seven ships remainedblockaded in the Vilaine.
Whilst Pitt kept his answer waiting, an English squadron blockaded Belle-Isle, and the governor, M.
The prince of Hamah blockaded Darbesak, which was garrisoned by the Knights Templars, and forced the mountain passes leading into the ancient Cilicia.
Lafayette had already blockaded Portsmouth, and driven back the enemy's picquets, when the issue of the combat between Admiral Arbuthnot and M.
The French army hate the idea of staying here, and want to join you; they swear at those that speak of waiting for the second division; they are enraged to be blockaded in this harbour.
Ternay's seven vessels have been blockaded the whole time, and the English have nineteen vessels here under that lucky commander, Rodney.
The French squadron has remained constantly blockaded in Rhode Island, and I imagine that the Chevalier Ternay died of grief in consequence of this event.
I will confide to you that, thus placed in a foreign country, my self love is wounded by seeing the French blockaded at Rhode Island, and the pain I feel induces me to wish the operations to commence.
They swear at those that speak of waiting the second division: they are enraged to be blockaded in this harbour.
On my arrival here every one told me that my ship must undoubtedly be taken, because two English frigates had blockaded the harbour.
Estaing blockaded New York, and we were thus neighbours of the English both by land and sea.
But it became evident, at the same time, that if those naval forces appeared upon the coast, they would be blockaded without any means of escape.
As soon as the capture of Memphis was known at the North, there was an eager scramble to secure the trade of the long-blockaded port.
In May, 1861, the Rebels blockaded the Mississippi at Memphis.
There, for a while, the French fleet was blockaded by the British, and the troops remained to aid the fleet in case of necessity.
Along the seaboard the British blockaded the entire coast, seized the eastern part of Maine, took Washington and burned the public buildings, and attacked Baltimore.
Pompeius; and while that chief blockaded Thurii and Consentia, Antony assailed Brundusium.
Sextus blockaded Italy so closely that Rome was threatened with a positive dearth.
Rancorous refugees swarmed in the camp of every invading enemy; and every blockaded city was sure to contain within its walls a body of intriguing malcontents, who were eager to purchase a party triumph at the expense of a national disaster.
But the blockade must nevertheless be maintained, because, although the blockaded fleet cannot by that means be destroyed, it can, at any rate, be immobilized and wiped off the board so long as it remains where it is.
His main objective was the armed forces of the enemy lying unassailable within the blockaded port.
Within the area of the organized patrol thus established, every vessel seeking to enter a blockaded port or to issue from it will still be liable to capture.
It follows that the main object of a military blockade can rarely be to keep the enemy's forces sealed up, masked, and to that extent immobilized in the blockaded ports.
The blockaded forces may not be so thoroughly intimidated by the superior forces of the blockaders that they could not or would not, if they could, seek a favourable opportunity for breaking or evading the blockade imposed upon them.
It should further be noted that torpedo craft engaged in offensive operations of this character are not confined to the blockaded port as a base.
Conflans with the French main fleet was at Brest, and there he was blockaded by Hawke.
Evading the blockade, Conflans put to sea and straightway went to release the troops and transports, hopelessly blockaded in the Morbihan.
The severe checks to national prosperity, which arose from the ruined commerce and blockaded ports of France, might now, under the countenance of the first consul, be exchanged for the wealth that waits upon trade and manufactures.
The French general had established, indeed, a chamber of commerce; but what commerce could take place from a closely blockaded harbour?
The fleet had perished--the army was blockaded in a distant province, when their arms were most necessary at home.
But he blockaded Mantua [June 4] with a large force, and proceeded to take such other measures to improve his success, as might pave the way to future victories.
They were quartered in a poor country, and the English squadron, which blockaded the coast, was vigilant in preventing any supplies from being sent to them.
