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    The Bombardment of Greytown or the Bombardment of San Juan del Norte was a naval action initiated by the United States sloop-of-war USS Cyane, commanded...
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    successful bombardment and capture of the city. This successful landing and capture of Veracruz opened the way for the capture of Mexico City and the end of the...
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    lighthouse and Martello tower on the northern end of the island. It would later be the Army base for bombardment of Fort Pulaski. In April and May 1862, Marines...
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    for not paying port tariffs at Greytown. One of the passengers was Cornelius Vanderbilt, business magnate and one of the richest people in the United...
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    William L. Marcy (category United States Secretaries of State)
    In 1854 Marcy had to deal with the complications growing out of the bombardment of Greytown (now San Juan de Nicaragua), by the United States warship Cyane...
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  • culminating in the Bombardment of Greytown. Tensions with Spain also rose due to the Black Warrior Affair and the publication of the Ostend Manifesto...
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  • The UK–US extradition treaty of 2003 was implemented by the UK in the Extradition Act 2003 and came into force in April 2007 following its ratification...
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    USS Cyane (1837) (category History of the Gulf of California)
    to Aspinwall for the protection of the lives and property of American citizens. She bombarded and destroyed Greytown, Mosquitia on 13 July 1854, in retaliation...
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    George N. Hollins (category United States Navy personnel of the War of 1812)
    in 1855. In 1853, he led the Bombardment of Greytown (Nicaragua), a naval action initiated by the United States sloop-of-war USS Cyane, which he commanded...
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    Edward Porter Alexander (category People of Georgia (U.S. state) in the American Civil War)
    rank of brigadier general. Alexander was the officer in charge of the massive artillery bombardment preceding Pickett's Charge, on the third day of the...
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  • (Nicaragua): On July 9–15, naval forces bombarded and burned San Juan del Norte (Greytown) to avenge an injured during a riot to the American Minister to Nicaragua...
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    USS St. Mary's (1844) (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships)
    ridge near Fort Santa Barbara to augment the Army's artillery. The bombardment of the city began the same day. On the 29th, the city was formally surrendered...
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    William Harwar Parker (category Ambassadors of the United States to Korea)
    Spending the winter in Key West, the ship sailed for Greytown, on the Mosquito Coast, in the spring of 1853. Here, Cyane spent 70 days safeguarding American...
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    SMS Hansa (1872) (category 19th-century frigates of Germany)
    where she remained until the end of March. She thereafter toured ports in the Greater Antilles, visited Greytown, Nicaragua, Colón in what was then...
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    USS Kansas (1863) (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships)
    Comdr. A. F. Grossman (ref. states 'Crosman') and others were drowned near Greytown, Nicaragua, 12 April 1872, and by personal exertion, seaman Austin Denham...
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    USS Gettysburg (1858) (category Ferries of the Isle of Man)
    transported the engineers to Aspinwall, Panama (then a part of Colombia), and Greytown, Nicaragua, and returned them to Norfolk on 10 May 1874. After several...
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    Graham Beresford Parkinson (category New Zealand Commanders of the Order of the British Empire)
    Parkinson was schooled at Greytown School and Newtown District High School. He also attended Wellington College for the final two years of his education. In 1913...
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