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Blockade of British Isles

Name: Blockade of British Isles – Great Britain factsheet records
Creator: World History Database

Great Britain · Warfare / World War, 2nd. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1940Date range

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Chronological records

1940

Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill17 August 1940

Warfare / World War, 2nd

Hitler declares a blockade of the British Isles

Names involved

Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill

Provenance

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