USS Baltimore Incident
On October 16, 1891, a mob attacked a group of sailors on shore leave from the cruiser USS Baltimore outside of a bar in the Chilean port of Valparaíso. Two sailors were killed and seventeen to eighteen were injured.
The new Chilean government rejected American protests, but after United States President Benjamin Harrison sent a strong message to the United States Congress Chile apologized and paid $75,000 in gold.
Read more about this topic: Baltimore Crisis
Famous quotes containing the words baltimore and/or incident:
“There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)
“What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?”
—Henry James (1843–1916)