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Cuba (Cuba) (search for this): entry nicaragua
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
United States (United States) (search for this): entry nicaragua
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Nicaragua (Nicaragua) (search for this): entry nicaragua
Nicaragua.
Baffled in an attempt to revolutionize or seize Cuba, ambitious American politicia graded natives.
It belonged to the State of Nicaragua, and was known as the Mosquito Coast.
It pr lf-barbarian chief to assume independence of Nicaragua.
By a pretended arrangement with the Britis to settle on the territory.
The governor of Nicaragua protested against this invasion by citizen ppeared with armed followers on the coast of Nicaragua in August following, and on Sept. 5 the emig tish consul recognized the new government of Nicaragua, and the American minister there, John H. Wh nance to the usurpation.
These movements in Nicaragua created alarm among the other governments on l declaration of war against the usurpers of Nicaragua, and on the 10th of that month, Walker, who re by the invitation of the Liberal party in Nicaragua.
War began on March 20, when the Costa Rica e, June 24, and was inaugurated President of Nicaragua on July 12.
So the first grand act of a con
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Rivas (Nicaragua) (search for this): entry nicaragua
California (California, United States) (search for this): entry nicaragua
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San Francisco (California, United States) (search for this): entry nicaragua
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Castellon (search for this): entry nicaragua