Evening star

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that period is one long list of expeditions

and campaigns, the greater part

of them directed against Lhe uncivilized

races.

When open anarchy raised its head

in Haiti, after turbulent years of revolutions

and counter revolutions, it

was the detachment of marines on the

U. S. S. Washington, under the command

of Capt. George Van Orden, that

led ashore the battalion from that

cruiser and disarmed the malcontents.

Within twenty-four hours after tl??

news of the assassination of Haiti'?

last president and the parading of

his mutilated body through the streets

of Puerta Plata a regiment of marines

was on board the transport Prairie

and on its way to the scene.

Col. Eli K. Cole of the Marine Corps

was assigned the command of the reinforcements,

and when the Prairie

cast off her mooring lines she carried

a regiment armed and equipped to

every last detail for a campaign of six

months. A week later followed a second

regiment, with Col. J,. W. T. Waller

as brigade commander.

With equal celerity a battalion of the

regiment of sea soldiers on duty at

the San Diego exposition was dispatched

to the port of Guaymas when news

came to Washington that the Yaquis

had taken the warpath and were endangering

the safety of the American

colonists in the province under the

nominal control of the Villa chieftain,

Maytorena. That laconic wire from

Washington stirred the San Diego marines

to jubilant hope, for the unregenerate

sea soldier, like his brothers

of the army and navy; infinitely prefers

a fight to any other sort of a

frolic. In this case he gladly turned

How to cite this articleCómo citar este artículo

Evening star. (1915). Washington, D.C., 1915-09-12. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83045462/1915-09-12/ed-1/?sp=46

ReferencesReferencias

Library of Congress, Chronicling America: Evening star, 1915-09-12.