These were a repeal of the orders in council, with no illegal blockades substituted, and a discontinuance of the impressment of seamen.
The subjects of impressment and blockades were not embraced in it.
Granting the truth of this anticipation, Great Britain might have claimed that, so far as evident danger was concerned, her blockades over long coast-lines were effective.
In order to determine what characterizes a blockade, that denomination is given only to a port, where there is, by the disposition of the Power which blockades it with ships stationary, an evident danger in entering.
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These blockades were supported, and their effects sustained and intensified, by an accumulation of naval force entirely beyond the competition of the American navy.
Since she recognizes the absurd blockades laid by England, consents to having her vessels incessantly stopped, sent to England, and so turned aside from their course, why should the Americans not suffer the blockade laid by France?
The Americans had come to Ghent to settle two outstanding problems--blockades and indemnities for attacks on neutral commerce--and to insist on the abandonment of impressments as a sine qua non.
If heblockades the Southern ports we shall be in a difficulty.
Everybody knows that British shells and British blockades would not do such things.
You see, our shells falling on schools and circuses don't disembowel little girls; our blockades don't starve them.
Under these circumstances there was nothing for it but to make for Dunkirk, force the blockades at the mouth of the Scheldt, and effect the junction with Parma.
Why, you know a lot about forts and mines and blockades and things, don't you?
Toro, he is Seki's brother, he knows how to build awful nice houses and blockades too.
The first nation to protest against these fictitious blockades was the United States.
Attempts were made by the European nations to establish blockades by mere enactment, without actual and sufficient occupation of the ports which were declared to be closed.
Cast down by constant reverses, he had kept up our armed ships only to oblige our enemies to blockades whose enormous cost must end by exhausting their finances.
To avoid such blockades there must be a military force afloat that will at all times so endanger a blockading fleet that it can by no means keep its place.
Agesipolis blockadesthe city, and forces it to surrender, by damming up the river Ophis.
Imilkon plunders the suburb of Achradina—blockades Syracuse by sea.
The battle for the Straits of Dover, the British naval chiefs held, must be fought off Brest and Ferrol and Toulon; and never in the history of the world were blockades so vigilant, and stern, and sleepless maintained.
But it was these iron blockades that in the long-run thwarted the plans of Napoleon and changed the fate of the world.
The long blockades had made Nelson's captains perfect seamen, and he taught them that close fighting at pistol-shot distance was the secret of victory.
Until he had done so he dared neither enter the Channel with his fleet nor detach a squadron to break the cruiser blockades at the invasion bases.
No delay, no confusion, no blockades of wharf-boats and baggage carts; everything worked in smooth grooves and in evident conformity with a prearranged and oft-rehearsed plan.
It would automatically have ended all blockades and all interference with commerce.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "blockades" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
