Word: portes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Federal troops captured Esperanza station on the Vera Cruz Railroad and extended their operation to Orizaka and Talapa. Rebel losses exceeded 2,000 in killed, wounded and prisoners. All these places are in the vicinity of the port of Vera Cruz, the rebel stronghold, which was threatened and which the Federals expected soon to occupy...
...Government sent the cruiser Omaha and six destroyers to Vera Cruz as a precautionary measure in case American interests are threatened during the forthcoming struggle for the port. Later the cruiser Richmond was sent to relieve the Omaha...
...TIME, Dec. 17 et seq.) during the past week favored the Rebels. ¶ The Rebel blockade of Tampico, after being protested by the U. S. State Department, was lifted or modified so that now the Rebels do nothing more offensive than to warn merchant vessels that they enter the port at their own risk. This lifting of the blockade occurred about the time that the U. S. S. Richmond arrived on the scene. ¶ The Rebels gave notice that they were about to mine the ports of Vera Cruz, Frontera and Puerto Mexico. The U. S. State Department protested...
ARTICLE FIRST?The de facto Government of the Mexican United States hereby declares the Port of Tampico to be blockaded. ARTICLE SECOND?This blockade starts on the 16th of January and will be undertaken by the squadron of the Revolutionary Liberators which has sufficient vessels to enforce...
ARTICLE THIRD?All merchant vessels desiring to take refuge in the Port of Tampico are given three days' grace to do so, and all vessels desiring to leave said port are hereby given six days' grace, the time to be counted from the date upon which the blockade begins. After this time elapses vessels that wish to either enter Tampico or depart thence will be considered as enemy vessels. Such a declaration affecting Tampico could not fail to injure the interests of the U. S., as most of the oil from American oil companies in Mexico is shipped from that...