- Baltimore Crisis
The "Baltimore" Crisis was a diplomatic incident that took place between
Chile and the United States of America as the result of US intervention in the Rebellion of 1891.An international group of warships including the USS "Charleston", "USS San Francisco" and "USS Baltimore" seized a rebel ship the "Itata", which was carrying Arms from the US to Iquique Harbour, for the insurgents in the Northern Provinces.
two sailors were killed and 17 were injured.
After the success of the Revolution, the new Chilean government rejected American protests, but after United States President
Benjamin Harrison sent a strong message to theUnited States Congress , Chile apologized and paid $75,000 in gold.Additional information
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Chilean Civil War
*Itata Incident ources and external links
*Foreign Relations of the United States of America for the Year 1891.
Washington, D.C. : GPO, 1892.
*Foreign Relations of the United States of America for the Year 1892.Washington, D.C. : GPO, 1893.
*"The Itata Incident" Osgood Hardy, in the Hispanic American Historical Review, vol V (1922) pp 195-226.
*The Federal Reporter. vv 47-9, 56
*John W. Foster. Michael Devine, London: The Ohio University Press, 1981.
*Message of the President of the United States Respecting the Relations with Chile. Benjamin Harrison,Washington, D.C. : GPO, 1892, 664 pp.
*Dark Days in Chile. Maurice H. Hervey, New York: McMillan, 1892, 336 pp.
*"The Late Chilean Controversy" John Bassett Moore, in Political Science Quarterly, vol 8 (1893), pp 467-94.
* [http://www.histarmar.com.ar/InfHistorica/USSBaltimorebase.htm Histamar sobre el tema] es
* [http://www.cema.edu.ar/ceieg/arg-rree/7/7-004.htm General History of the Foreign Affairs of Argentina] es
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