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... ports was one of Britain's sharpest weapons . The British used this weapon as determinedly as the Germans were to use sub- marines a century later , and moreover they applied the blockade to the ships of neutrals as well as enemies . As ...
... ports was one of Britain's sharpest weapons . The British used this weapon as determinedly as the Germans were to use sub- marines a century later , and moreover they applied the blockade to the ships of neutrals as well as enemies . As ...
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... Port Arthur rumours of a coming war with the Japanese were plentiful . Early in January the Japanese freighters ceased to bring coal to the naval base where the stockpile of coal for the fleet was a high Russian priority . On 1 February ...
... Port Arthur rumours of a coming war with the Japanese were plentiful . Early in January the Japanese freighters ceased to bring coal to the naval base where the stockpile of coal for the fleet was a high Russian priority . On 1 February ...
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... ports such as Oran and Bona and Algiers unless they also held the surrounding countryside which supplied the ports with foodstuffs , forage and articles of commerce . And the ring of villages around the ports could not be held ...
... ports such as Oran and Bona and Algiers unless they also held the surrounding countryside which supplied the ports with foodstuffs , forage and articles of commerce . And the ring of villages around the ports could not be held ...
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