Word: corinto
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Dates: during 1926-1926
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...usurper, President Chamorro and the Liberal counter-revolutionary leader, onetime Vice President Sacassa. Total casualties for the week were roughly estimated at 100. After a particularly fierce skirmish, President Chamorro courteously requested the commander of the U. S. gunboat Tulsa, which was anchored at the port of Corinto, to steam seven miles up the coast to the scene of battle and take care of the wounded, since neither army was equipped with a medical corps. Dutifully the Tulsa steamed out to tidy up the battlefield, found no battlefield to tidy at the spot designated by President Chamorro, returned to Corinto...
...gunboat Galveston steamed through the Panama Canal last week turned northward and cast anchor in the Nicaraguan harbor of Bluefields. Simultaneously the U. S. gunboat Tulsa anchored off Corinto on the opposite (Pacific) coast of Nicaragua. Thus U. S. cannon faced each other across the 200 mile extreme width of a nation with which the U. S. is at peace. Several hundred U. S. marines were landed with fighting equipment at Bluefields...