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Seven thousand troops under Sir Ralph Abercromby landed east of San Juan and blockaded the city.
Finally, Sparta, with naval help from former foe Persia, blockaded what was then the Hellespont (now the Dardanelles Strait), thus cutting off Athens from its crucial supply of grain.
Farther south, angry Canadian fishermen blockaded an Alaskan ferry to protest their low catch of sockeye, which, they say, have been impelled northward to the colder Alaskan waters by unknown factors (global warming?)
On 9 November they broke through the outer walls to find the Greeks blockaded into a wine storeroom where they had a stash of gunpowder.
Denia, held by the enemy, was blockaded for eight months in 1813.