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Matanzas,
A seaport of Cuba, on the bay of Matanzas, about 50 miles east of Havana.
It was one of the first places to be blockaded by the United States at the beginning of the war with Spain.
Here, on April 27, 1898, a reconnaissance was ordered in force for the purpose of locating the Spanish batteries, ascertaining their number, and preventing the completion of additional fortifications.
The Puritan, Cincinnati, and New York ran into the bay and opened fire upon a new earthwork, which was struck by the third shot.
The Spaniards replied without hitting a ship.
The Americans fired eightysix shots at ranges varying from 4,000 to 11,000 yards, and the Spaniards fired twelve.
There were no casualties on the American side, and the Spanish reported that the only damage done them was the death of a mule.
During the action a Cuban force approached to attack the city,
Massasoit's Lodge. but were driven off with a loss of twenty men.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Miles , Nelson Appleton 1839 - (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Monroe , James 1759 -1870 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Mora , Antonio Maximo 1818 -1897 (search)
Mora, Antonio Maximo 1818-1897
Claimant; born in Cuba in 1818; inherited large sugar plantations near Havana; declared his intention to become a citizen of the United States in New York City in 1853; and after the beginning of the Cuban revolution in 1868 was accused of aiding the insurgents.
His property, valued at $3,000,000, was seized by the Spanish government (1869), and he was arrested, imprisoned, and in 1870 was sentenced to death.
He, however, escaped to the United States, where e same time declaring that he had in no way aided the insurgents.
The United States immediately opened a diplomatic correspondence with Spain in regard to the matter.
In September, 1873, Spain relinquished all claims against American property in Cuba, excepting the Mora plantation.
An agreement was made that claims for damages by de facto American citizens should be placed before an international committee.
Accordingly the claim of Mora was submitted to such a committee, which decided agains
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Narvaez , Panfilo de 1478 - (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Nealy Extradition case. (search)
Nealy Extradition case.
C. F. W Nealy was accused of frauds in the postoffice at Havana, Cuba.
He had returned to the United States, and the status of the island of Cuba in its relation to the United States was determined upon a demand for Nealy's extradition.
In January, 1901, the court ordered him to be extradited
Nicaragua.
Baffled in an attempt to revolutionize or seize Cuba, ambitious American politicians turned their attention to Mexico and Central America, coveting regions within the Golden Circle.
Their operations first assumed the innocent form of an armed emigration—armed merely for their own protection—and their first theatre was a region on the great isthmus inhabited chiefly by a race of degraded natives.
It belonged to the State of Nicaragua, and was known as the Mosquito Coast.
It promised to be a territory of great commercial importance.
Under the specious pretext that the British were likely to possess it, and appealing to the Monroe doctrine (see Monroe, James) for justification, armed citizens of the United States emigrated to that region.
Already the guns of the American navy had been heard there as heralds of coming power.
The first formidable emigration took place in the autumn or early winter of 1854.
It was alleged that the native king of the Mosquito country b
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Oglethorpe , James Edward 1698 -1785 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Ojeda , Alonzo de 1465 -1515 (search)