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• blockade-runner — blockade running, n. /blo kayd run euhr/, n. a ship or person that passes through a blockade. [1860 65] * * * …   Universalium

• Blockade runner — A blockade runner is a term applied to ships used to evade a naval blockade of a harbor or strait, as opposed to confronting the blockaders to break the blockade. Very often blockade running is done in order to transport cargo, for example to… …   Wikipedia

• Blockade — For other uses, see Blockade (disambiguation). An action during the British fleet s blockade of the French port of Toulon between 1810 and 1814, depicted by Thomas Luny …   Wikipedia

• blockade — blockader, n. /blo kayd /, n., v., blockaded, blockading. n. 1. the isolating, closing off, or surrounding of a place, as a port, harbor, or city, by hostile ships or troops to prevent entrance or exit. 2. any obstruction of passage or progress:… …   Universalium

• Blockade Strategy Board — The Blockade Strategy Board of the American Civil War, also known variously as the Commission of Conference or as the Du Pont Board, was a group of four men, meeting in the summer of 1861 at the request of the Navy Department, who laid out a… …   Wikipedia

• blockade-runner — noun Date: 1862 a ship or person that runs through a blockade • blockade running noun …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• blockade-running — noun see blockade runner …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• blockade-running — See blockade runner. * * * …   Universalium

• blockade-running — noun see blockade runner …   Useful english dictionary

• Union blockade — Part of the American Civil War An 1861 cartoon map of the blockade, known as Winfield Scott …   Wikipedia

• Berlin Blockade — Operation Vittles redirects here. For the 1948 documentary film, see Operation Vittles (film). Berliners watching a C 54 land at Tempelhof Airport (1948) …   Wikipedia