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    During the American Civil War, blockade runners were used to get supplies through the Union blockade of the Confederate States of America that extended...
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    tremendous, so blockade-runners typically had excellent crews. Although having modus operandi similar to that of smugglers, blockade-runners are often operated...
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  • and the American Civil War Canada and the American Civil War Bahamas and the American Civil War Blockade runners of the American Civil War Timeline of British...
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    Cuba in 1867. American Civil War portal Captured ships of the American Civil War Wilkinson, John (1877). The Narrative of a Blockade-Runner. Sheldon & Company...
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    The Union blockade in the American Civil War was a naval strategy by the United States to prevent the Confederacy from trading. The blockade was proclaimed...
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    Ceres was a blockade runner of the American Civil War. After Ceres was abandoned near the mouth of the Cape Fear River in North Carolina in December 1863...
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    during the latter part of the American Civil War. She was purchased by the Union Navy and outfitted as a gunboat and assigned to the blockade of the waterways...
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    Battles of the American Civil War were fought between April 12, 1861, and May 12–13, 1865 in 19 states, mostly Confederate (Alabama, Arkansas, Florida...
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    CSS Robert E. Lee (category Blockade runners of the American Civil War)
    which was bought as a blockade runner for the Confederate States during the American Civil War, then subsequently served in the United States Navy as...
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  • The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the American Civil War: American Civil Warcivil war in the United States of...
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    left America before and during the war. History of the Bahamas Blockade runners of the American Civil War United Kingdom in the American Civil War Canada...
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    USS Princess Royal (category Blockade runners of the American Civil War)
    was a British merchant ship and blockade runner that became a cruiser in the Union Navy during the American Civil War and later returned to civilian service...
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    "The Blockade Runners" (French: Les forceurs de blocus) is an 1865 novella by Jules Verne. In 1871 it was published in single volume together with novel...
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    CSS Sumter (category Blockade runners of the American Civil War)
    foundered on the Dogger Bank on 14 February 1867, with her crew being rescued by a fishing smack. Blockade runners of the American Civil War Confederate...
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    USS Atlanta (1861) (category Blockade runners of the American Civil War)
    served in the Confederate and Union Navies during the American Civil War. She was converted from a British-built blockade runner named Fingal by the Confederacy...
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    USS Hornet (1865) (category Blockade runners of the American Civil War)
    Cuban rebels during the Ten Years' War. Blockade runners of the American Civil War Ships captured in the American Civil War Office of Naval Records, 1921...
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    leading to the American Civil War Northwest Ordinance Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions End of Atlantic slave trade Missouri Compromise Tariff of 1828 Nat...
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  • Leopard, one of the blockade runners of the American Civil War CMC Leopard, a defunct British light personal business jet developed in the 1980s as two...
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    secured its own blockade runners for dedicated munitions cargoes. During the Civil War fleets of armored warships were deployed for the first time in sustained...
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    Sidney Lanier (category Blockade runners of the American Civil War)
    September 7, 1881) was an American musician, poet and author. He served in the Confederate States Army as a private, worked on a blockade-running ship for which...
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  • The diplomacy of the American Civil War involved the relations of the United States and the Confederate States of America with the major world powers during...
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  • the Mexican–American War, and Confederate blockade runners of the American Civil War. The book received positive literary reviews in Early American Literature...
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    London Armoury Company (category Weapons of the Confederate States of America)
    another arms dealer that supplied the Confederacy Blockade runners of the American Civil War — how British arms made it to the Confederacy "Revolver - Colt...
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    Spadeadam. List of ships captured in the 18th century List of ships captured in the 19th century Blockade runners of the American Civil War Prize money Spolia...
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    for the Confederacy during the American Civil War. It was the last port to fall to the Union Army (February 1865), completing its blockade of the Atlantic...
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    There were a wide variety of weapons used during the American Civil War, especially in the early days as both the Union and Confederate armies struggled...
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    The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union ("the North")...
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    N. C. Trowbridge (category Blockade runners of the American Civil War)
    blockade-runner, the Ceres, during the American Civil War. Trowbridge was arrested on treason charges twice during the war, and convicted in 1864 of treason...
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    disruptions. The Union blockade of southern ports was a major factor in the American Civil War. During World War I, the Allies blockaded the Central Powers...
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  • The economic history of the American Civil War concerns the financing of the Union and Confederate war efforts from 1861 to 1865, and the economic impact...
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