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    MILITARY BLOCKADE

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    The action of an armed force that surrounds a fortified place and isolates it while continuing to attackplay

    Synonyms:

    beleaguering; besieging; military blockade; siege

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting acts or actions

    Hypernyms ("military blockade" is a kind of...):

    blockade; encirclement (a war measure that isolates some area of importance to the enemy)

    Domain category:

    armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)

    Instance hyponyms:

    Alamo (a siege and massacre at a mission in San Antonio in 1836; Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico)

    Atlanta; battle of Atlanta (a siege in which Federal troops under Sherman cut off the railroads supplying the city and then burned it; 1864)

    Bataan; Corregidor (the peninsula and island in the Philippines where Japanese forces besieged American forces in World War II; United States forces surrendered in 1942 and recaptured the area in 1945)

    Dien Bien Phu (the French military base fell after a siege by Vietnam troops that lasted 56 days; ended the involvement of France in Indochina in 1954)

    Lucknow (the British residents of Lucknow were besieged by Indian insurgents during the Indian Mutiny (1857))

    Orleans; siege of Orleans (a long siege of Orleans by the English was relieved by Joan of Arc in 1429)

    Petersburg; Petersburg Campaign (the final campaign of the American Civil War (1864-65); Union forces under Grant besieged and finally defeated Confederate forces under Lee)

    Pleven; Plevna (the town was taken from the Turks by the Russians in 1877 after a siege of 143 days)

    siege of Syracuse; Syracuse (the Athenian siege of Syracuse (415-413 BC) was eventually won by Syracuse)

    siege of Syracuse; Syracuse (the Roman siege of Syracuse (214-212 BC) was eventually won by the Romans who sacked the city (killing Archimedes))

    siege of Vicksburg; Vicksburg (a decisive battle in the American Civil War (1863); after being besieged for nearly seven weeks the Confederates surrendered)

    siege of Yorktown; Yorktown (in 1781 the British under Cornwallis surrendered after a siege of three weeks by American and French troops; the surrender ended the American Revolution)

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