by CARMEN GOMEZ
The exceptional strategic importance of the Channel as a tool for blockading was recognized by the First Sea Lord Admiral Fisher in the years before World War I; “Five keys lock up the world! Singapore, the Cape, Alexandria, Gibraltar, Dover.”
The naval blockade in the Channel and North Sea was one of the decisive factors in the German defeat in 1918.
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