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Definition of Military blockade
1. Noun. The action of an armed force that surrounds a fortified place and isolates it while continuing to attack.
Generic synonyms: Blockade, Encirclement
Specialized synonyms: Alamo, Atlanta, Battle Of Atlanta, Bataan, Corregidor, Dien Bien Phu, Lucknow, Orleans, Siege Of Orleans, Petersburg, Petersburg Campaign, Pleven, Plevna, Siege Of Syracuse, Syracuse, Siege Of Syracuse, Syracuse, Siege Of Vicksburg, Vicksburg, Siege Of Yorktown, Yorktown
Category relationships: Armed Forces, Armed Services, Military, Military Machine, War Machine
Lexicographical Neighbors of Military Blockade
Literary usage of Military blockade
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The British Fleet in the Great War by Archibald Hurd (1918)
"It falls naturally under three heads : (1) the military blockade, which was
supplemented by (2) the commercial blockade, pressed with increasing stringency ..."
2. The British Empire Series (1902)
"By "blockade" is meant military blockade—the blockade of warships by warships.
... military blockade is sanctioned only by force. Even in this latter sense ..."
3. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1902)
"A military blockade is designed to shut, ... The military blockade, from the
point of international law, does not occupy so important a ..."
4. International Law with Illustrative Cases by Edwin Maxey (1906)
"... of July 26,1898, appears to us to have been written wholly from the standpoint
of the efficiency of the blockade as a military blockade. ..."
5. The New International Encyclopaedia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1906)
"A military blockade is designed to phut off an enemy from'his source or base of
supplies, ... The military blockade, from the point of international law, ..."
6. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1864)
"As to what did or did not constitute a " military" blockade, within the meaning
of the rule, difficulties would, of course, arise ; but there is no reason ..."
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