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Blockade may be called the elephant of naval warfare, as destructive, often, to friends as to foes.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “Blockade may be called the elephant of naval warfare, as destructive, often, to friends as to foes.”
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Sumner uses a metaphor to describe the destructive nature of blockades in naval warfare.
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