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Of Mobile Bay, it had been the last important port on the Gulf of Mexico east of the Mississippi River remaining in Confederate possession. Its closure was the final step in completing the blockade in that region.
shipping routes
the Bosphorus and Dardanelles sea routes (also known as the Turkish Straights)
The islands in the Pacific were important for both the Japanese and the Americans to maintain control of. Whoever was effectively able to control the islands in the Pacific could essentially control the shipping routes of the Pacific Great Circle.
All of them. Even the Crusades were more about control of trade routes than anything else. "Causes" are merely a device used by Daddy Warbucks to dupe young men and women into getting themselves killed and maimed in order to satisfy that greed.