Filming into the war zone was restricted to two or three angles; if too much of the attack was shown, Israeli authorities declared a "secure military zone" and moved the journalists further back. [...] it was impossible to conduct phone interviews with Hamas and other Palestinian leaders in Gaza because elected government officials feared the Israeli military would lock onto their mobile signals and assassinate them. Mark Ellis, director of the International Bar Association in London, was quoted in the Jan. 14 Christian Science Monitor as saying, The use of white phosphorus is banned as a weapon that causes 'unnecessary suffering.'
HAIFA, Israel - Israeli gunships headed out to sea Friday to stop a flotilla of pro-Palestinian activists from reaching the Gaza Strip, the military said, setting the stage for what could become a dramatic showdown on the high seas. Israel's foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman, said the country was prepared to stop the flotilla "at any cost." He called the self- described aid mission a provocation and urged the international community to show understanding for the tough response.
Tourists coming to idyllic Bermuda on cruise ships that slide between the Narrows outside St. George and into the harbor dock see only crystal-clear water and a spotlessly clean island dotted with pastel-colored houses with white concrete roofs. Links between the island and the United States go back to 1609, when one of the ships bringing aid to the island's small, starving colony wrecked on its encircling reefs. Though the Sea Venture did not complete her rescue journey, settlers would arrive in Bermuda three years later under the auspices of the Virginia Colony.
Abraham Lincolns botched order ensured that Lt. Thomas Stowell Phelps, a blue-water sailor born and raised in Buckfield, missed the Civil Wars opening chorus at Fort Sumter. However, he subsequently would battle Confederate gunboats and blockade runners throughout the war before participating in a Georgia battle in mid-April 1865.
Charles M. Allen thought he had one of the least demanding postings in the U.S. diplomatic service. Assigned in 1861 to be U.S. consul in Bermuda, the dark-bearded Allen could look forward to far more pleasant weather than at home and to duty no more onerous than assisting the occasional stranded sailor. Then war intervened. Allen arrived in St. George, Bermuda, a few months after the attack on Fort Sumter to find himself almost the lone Yankee in a hotbed of pro-Confederate sentiment.
..., in a prize cause, for violation of the blockade of San Juan, Porto Rico. The steamship was owned a...510, 522] . present for blockade runners having local pilots to work in close to the port u...
The Union's strategy to defeat the Confederacy during the Civil War was only partly big battalions, bullets and cannonballs. The rest was a type of siege warfare known as blockade. Federal ships would close off Southern ports and starve the Confederacy, denying the enemy food, trade for its cotton, munitions and raw materials from abroad. With a tiny navy and a mainly agrarian society, the Confederacy had no sound plan to counter this passive weapon - but as Jim McNeil shows in his detailed account of the life and death of one Southern port (Wilmington, N.C.) the South certainly tried its best.
If you go Historian Robert Browning presents a free lecture, The Blockade Will Be Broken: The Union Blockade of the East Coast During the Civil War, at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Cultural Center in Charleston. The lecture is part of the 2005 Civil War Scholars Lecture Series program. rustymarks@wvgazette.com
Tennessee Gov. Isham G. Harris, his state in the Confederacy, issues a call for the homefront women to prepare blankets, uniforms and other clothing for troops set to fight. Tennessee is a state of divided loyalties that mustered tens of thousands of Confederate troops but saw thousands also go to the Union side. Some of Tennessee's bloodiest fighting is still well distant, at Shiloh in 1862.
... force from Fort Monroe, Va., to stifle blockade runners and seize Hatteras Inlet, N.C. Days later...
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