The Continental Blockade (French: Blocus continental), or Continental System, was a large-scale embargo by French Emperor Napoleon I against the British...

died from starvation and disease during the war because of the Allied blockade. An academic study done in 1928 put the death toll at 424,000. Germany...

order to secure the Reich's eastern flank and prevent a possible British blockade. Hitler initially favoured the idea of a satellite state, but upon its...

the Parti Populaire Français (PPF) and member of the LVF. Pierre Drieu La Rochelle, writer. Henri Lafont Étienne Leandri, wore the Gestapo uniform during...

The two went on campaign with the aim of creating a blockade against Protestant held La Rochelle. Lanssac then prepared naval vessels for combat and attempted...

Paris was besieged by the Prussian Army. Following several months of blockade, hunger, and then bombardment by the Prussians, the city was forced to...

completely". The Carignan-Salières Regiment marched across France to La Rochelle on the Atlantic coast. Each of the twenty companies had a nominal strength...

under Chen Youliang 1372 June 22 and 23 La Rochelle – Castilian fleet defeats English fleet near La Rochelle 1378 – Venetians under Vettor Pisani defeat...

d'Espèrey. The 1934 work by the French Fascist and writer Pierre Drieu La Rochelle, The Comedy of Charleroi, explores the author's role in the battle. In...

d'ordonnance at the instigation of the Bourbon princes. The governor of La Rochelle, the baron de Jarnac reported in September that ministers were working...

U-boats were stationed in submarine pens in French Atlantic ports such as La Rochelle, Bordeaux, Saint-Nazaire, Brest, and Lorient. 1944: 157th Mountain (Reserve)...

Prague and ending the rule of "Winter King" Frederick in Bohemia Blockade of La Rochelle 1621–1622 – The repression of the Huguenot rebellion by the French...

became known as the "Phoney War". From the start of the war, a British blockade on shipments to Germany affected its economy. Germany was particularly...

Hitler-mandated stay-behind "fortresses" in ports along the Atlantic coast like La Rochelle and Saint-Nazaire until the German capitulation in May 1945. Also in...

War Siege of Saint-Jean-d'Angély (1621) – Huguenot rebellions Blockade of La Rochelle (1621–22) – Huguenot rebellions Siege of Montauban (1621) – Huguenot...

Vukašin of Serbia, were defeated by an Ottoman force. 1372 Battle of La Rochelle 22–23 June - Castilian fleet defeats the English fleet. English sea dominance...

began to arrive in Tetouan and on 5 August Franco was able to break the blockade, successfully deploying a convoy of fishing boats and merchant ships carrying...

François-Achille (1883). Episodes de la guerre de 1870 et le blocus de Metz [Episodes from the War of 1870 and the Blockade of Metz] (in French). Madrid: Gaspar...

an invasion of northern France in 1206, disembarking with his army at La Rochelle during one of Philip's absences, but the campaign ended up a disaster...

2024. Retrieved 11 September 2018. "De La Rochelle al saqueo e incendio de Londres por la flota castellana: la batalla que humilló a los ingleses". larazon...

occupied Polish territories allowed Germany to circumvent the British naval blockade. In October and November 1940, German–Soviet talks about the potential...

Israeli-Egyptian blockade of the Gaza Strip. In an interview with BBC Radio Ulster while still at sea, Maguire called the blockade an "inhumane, illegal...

with international imports, blockades brought the issue of food security back into European politics, the Allied blockade of Germany in and after World...

– drama film set in and around turn-of-the-century New York City, New Rochelle, and Atlantic City, and includes fictionalized references to actual people...

exports and diverted most to production of ammonium picrate. Britain also blockaded supplies from Germany.[citation needed] Edison responded by undertaking...

was the Allied naval blockade of Germany, announced the day after the declaration of war, and Germany's subsequent counter-blockade. The campaign peaked...

in the traders' hometowns. Outposts in Lisbon, Bordeaux, Bourgneuf, La Rochelle and Nantes offered the cheaper Bay salt. Ships that plied this trade...

Lexington Books. ISBN 978-1498559492. Retrieved 12 November 2023. Davis, Rochelle (2011). Palestinian Village Histories: Geographies of the Displaced. Stanford...

destruction of images and statues in Catholic churches occurred in Rouen and La Rochelle in 1560. The following year, the attacks extended to over 20 cities and...

Jean Cocteau Le Der des ders / Didier Daeninckx La Comédie de Charleroi / Pierre Drieu la Rochelle La Chambre des officiers / Marc Dugain Le Monument :...