Combat· Late 19th Century Foreign Interventions
Late 19th C. Foreign Interventions
A grouping of the many small Marine deployments across Latin America, the Caribbean, Hawaii, Europe, and the Mediterranean in the decades after the Civil War, as American interests expanded abroad.
The category gathers a long, varied record of protective landings, ceremonial details, and crisis responses: the repeated landings on the Panama isthmus to guard the railroad and the transit, culminating in the 1885 Aspinwall expedition; the relief at Alexandria in 1882 after the British bombardment set the city ablaze; the Hawaiian deployments through the succession crises and the 1893 overthrow of the queen; the response to the Baltimore affair at Valparaiso in 1891; the Bluefields landing in Nicaragua in 1894; and the ceremonial guards at the Paris expositions. The common thread was the small landing party sent to protect American lives, property, and interests, the prelude to the larger interventions of the Banana Wars to come.
Engagements in this conflict (8)
Record no. 464