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...

mitigate the crisis of growing food shortages in Germany. Despite the Allied blockade, everyone could have been fed adequately, but supplies were not managed...

Ulrich Friedrich-Wilhelm Joachim von Ribbentrop (German: [joˈʔaxɪm fɔn ˈʁɪbəntʁɔp]; 30 April 1893 – 16 October 1946) was a German politician and diplomat...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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

– 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...

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

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...

A siege (Latin: sedere, lit. 'to sit') is a military blockade of a city, or fortress, with the intent of conquering by attrition, or by well-prepared assault...

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...

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)...

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...

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

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...

expanding eastward and transforming those lands into breadbaskets, another blockade, such as that of World War I, would not cause massive food shortages, as...

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

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