[DOC] [TLE] Blockade - Wikipedia [PAR] A blockade is an effort to cut off supplies, war material or communications from a 
particular area ... Close patrol of hostile ports, in order to prevent naval forces 
from putting to sea, ... The object of loose blockade is to lure the enemy into 
venturing out but to stay ... If the ship does not stop, then the ship is subject to 
capture. [DOC] [TLE] Blockade of Germany (193945) - Wikipedia [PAR] The Blockade of Germany (19391945), also known as the Economic War, was 
carried out during the Second World War by the United Kingdom and France in 
order to restrict the supplies of minerals, metals, food and textiles Germany 
needed to sustain its ... Enemy supply ships were sunk or captured while neutral 
ships were subject... [DOC] [TLE] Blockade! - Civil War Trust [PAR] An article describing the Union blockade of Southern ports during the Civil War. 
... or in engagements with the enemy's ships-of-war, counted for almost nothing 
as an ... sufficient really to prevent access to the coast of the enemy;" or, 
according to ... closing of an enemy's ports, and the capture of all vessels, neutral 
or hostile,... [DOC] [TLE] PATE Rules, NWOL Naval Module - Civil War OnLine [PAR] Jun 15, 2016 ... Units and supplies in off-GITM-map ports are part of the garrisons of .... loss and 
stop responding to orders except for base change orders. ... and there are no 
hostile ships in either port or in the connected sea area(s). .... Ships can choose 
to pursue enemy ships encountered, evade them, or accept contact. [DOC] [TLE] Outline of American History - Chapter 3: The Road to Independence [PAR] Unless the taxpayer in England was to supply all money for the colonies' defense
, ... Later in 1764, Parliament enacted a Currency Act "to prevent paper bills of 
credit .... British ships lying at anchor and dumped their tea cargo into Boston 
harbor. ... Acts." The first, the Boston Port Bill, closed the port of Boston until the 
tea was... [DOC] [TLE] War of 1812 facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com articles ... [PAR] The United States defended its right to naturalize foreigners and rejected ... 
bound for the Continent that did not first call at a British port to pay duties and 
unload cargo. ... These laws prohibited virtually all American ships from putting to 
sea and ... American trade and to harass the vastly superior naval forces of their 
enemy. [DOC] [TLE] The American Revolution [PAR] The British had moved the French off the land and the Indians didn't receive any 
... In April 1766, the colonies ended their boycott of British goods when they 
heard ... to obey the Quartering Act by not giving up their homes or supplies to the 
soldiers. .... to stop the East India Company from docking their ships in colonial 
ports. [DOC] [TLE] General William Tecumseh Sherman | HistoryNet [PAR] By taking or destroying supplies, Sherman tried to prevent the Confederates from 
... The important port city had become, with the Union victories at Shiloh and .... 
The day before, bushwhackers there had fired on the Union supply ship ... off the 
hostile country as successfully as the enemy's army had done in its own territory. [DOC] [TLE] Hostile Tongues and Enemy Mouths (1: Days of Thunder Cries) by ... [PAR] Story: Hostile Tongues and Enemy Mouths (1: Days of Thunder Cries) ... Zedra 
had her ship in port for over a week and the men were getting restless. ... She 
would have sailed out that day if it weren't for news of a storm headed their way. 
... There were sailors to pay, supplies to cover, damage to account for, and a 
season at... [DOC] [TLE] HyperWar: Campaigns of MacArthur/I (Chapter 5) - Ibiblio [PAR] General MacArthur lacked the forces necessary to carry out such a scheme of 
frontal ... While their troops were still fighting in Papua, other forces moved 
southward from ..... Along with the loss of critical troops, supplies, and ships,

Question: The closing off of a port by hostile ships to stop supplies from coming in to their enemy
Answer: Blockade