The seaborne commerce of Austria was insignificant, and could easily be controlled from his vassal lands of Venetia and Dalmatia.
"The Life of Napoleon I (Volumes, 1 and 2)"
John Holland Rose
Not that Doctor Jolly grudged him a living, for no matter what he said, he would cheerfully have lent his brother practitioner a helping hand; but then no one would let anyone else visit them in Bigton but our Damon, so the poor- Othello's-occupation's-gone-M.D. had to buy and sell chaldrons of the best Wallsend and seaborne, and fed his family in that way.
"Caught in a Trap"
John C. Hutcheson
The blockade cut off seaborne trade and posed a constant threat of attack upon New York and other important ports, particularly Baltimore.
"Fulton's "Steam Battery": Blockship and Catamaran"
Howard I. Chapelle