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.
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