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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Clayton-Bulwer treaty, the (search)
of assisting in so important a work. Now, previous to the adoption of this treaty Great Britain had held possessions in Central America. She had owned Balize, or British Honduras, since 1783. and had later acquired a protectorate over the Mosquito coast and over the Bay Islands, a group near Honduras. The question, therefore, arose whether by the pledge not to occupy any part of Central America in the future she was bound to surrender possessions held in the present. There was considerableer for some years, and it seemed at one time doubtful whether an understanding satisfactory to both sides could be reached. However, on Great Britain's giving up the Bay Islands and signing a treaty with Nicaragua, yielding all claims on the Mosquito coast, the American Secretary of State, in 1860, in behalf of the government, consented to the continued occupation of Balize, and President Buchanan, in his next message, declared that all disputes under the Clayton-Bulwer treaty had been satisfac
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Nicaragua. (search)
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), United States of America. (search)
erce issues a proclamation against the invasion of Cuba......May 31, 1854 Anthony Burns, arrested as a slave at Boston, Mass., is taken by the revenue cutter Morris, by order of President Pierce, conveyed to Norfolk, Va., and delivered to his alleged master, a Mr. Suttle......June 2, 1854 Treaty with Great Britain, reciprocity; the fishery difficulty settled......June 5, 1854 George N. Hollins, commander of the ship Cyane, bombards and destroys the small town of Greytown on the Mosquito coast, Central America......June 13, 1854 [This was an attempt to obtain redress for a personal insult to one of the officers of the government, and to enforce a claim of $24,000 indemnity.] Merrimac, a new steam war-frigate, launched at the Charleston navy-yard......June 14, 1854 [This was one of the vessels seized by the Confederates at the Norfolk navyyard, April, 1861.] Medal presented to Captain Ingraham, U. S. N., by a resolution of Congress, as a testimonial of the high sens
James Buchanan, Buchanan's administration on the eve of the rebellion, Chapter 13: (search)
t the commencement of Mr. Buchanan's administration. Two irritating and dangerous questions were pending between them, either of which might at any moment have involved them in war. The first arose out of her claim to a protectorate over the Mosquito Coast, and her establishment of a colonial government over the Bay Islands, which territories belonged respectively to the feeble Central American Republics of Nicaragua and Honduras. These acts of usurpation on the part of the British Government extend for a thousand miles along our own frontiers. During the administration of President Polk, it became necessary that he should reaffirm the Monroe doctrine, in view of the designs of Great Britain to establish a protectorate over the Mosquito coast in the Republics of Nicaragua and Honduras. This he did, in decided terms, in his first annual message to Congress (2d December, 1845.) 3 Statesman's Manual, p. 1458. Great Britain, as we have already seen, through the interposition o