Military blockade: alternatives and connections

The first attack, or act of hostility; the first act of injury, or first act leading to a war or a controversy; unprovoked attack; ass…

An alarm from a real or threatened attack; a sudden attack; also, a bugle sound to give warning.

To attack morally, or with a view to produce changes in the feelings, character, conduct, existing usages, institutions; to attack by…

To make an assault upon, as by a sudden rush of armed men; to attack with unlawful or insulting physical violence or menaces.

the onset of a corrosive or destructive process (as by a chemical agent); "the film was sensitive to attack by acids"; "open to attack…

To attack; to make an effort or attack upon; to try to take by force; as, to attempt the enemy's camp.

A tower or an elevated work, used for the defense, or in the siege, of a fortified place.

An attack upon a fortress or fortified town, with shells, hot shot, rockets, etc.; the act of throwing bombs and shot into a town or f…

a large building formerly occupied by a ruler and fortified against attack

The act of rushing upon, or towards, an enemy; a sudden onset or attack, as of troops, esp. cavalry; hence, the signal for attack; as,…

The application to another of either physical or moral force. When the force is physical, and cannot be resisted, then the act produce…

a type of fortification, like a hornwork, but consisting of a full bastion with the walls on either side ending in half-bastions from…

The act of drawing the attention and force of an enemy from the point where the principal attack is to be made; the attack, alarm, or…

A furious attack made by troops on a fortified place, in which ladders are used to pass a ditch or mount a rampart.

A steep descent or declivity; steep face or edge of a ridge; ground about a fortified place, cut away nearly vertically to prevent hos…

Firm against attack; fortified by nature or art; impregnable; strong.

A sudden and violent attack of a disorder; a stroke of disease, as of epilepsy or apoplexy, which produces convulsions or unconsciousn…

The side of an army, or of any division of an army, as of a brigade, regiment, or battalion; the extreme right or left; as, to attack…