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...Some of them: In 1802 President Jefferson sent a naval expedition to war with the Barbary pirates; in 1900 President McKinley sent U.S. sailors, soldiers and marines into China to help quell the Boxer Rebellion; in 1912 President Taft established an American "protectorate" over Nicaragua with the marines in charge...
...gathered at the Ballhausplatz, seat of Austria's chancellory. Western soldiers were beaten up. Despite their small following (5% of the voters), the Communists found sympathizers among other workers who were bitter about the price boosts. Not even the Viennese police were notably enthusiastic in trying to quell the riots...
...Pacific, in the words of General MacArthur, a peaceful lake. The Pacific actually became a U.S. responsibility when Commodore Matthew Perry in 1853 opened the Pandora's box of Japan; the U.S. began to recognize its responsibility when it took the Philippines from Spain in 1898, helped to quell the Boxer Rebellion in 1900, helped to settle the Russo-Japanese War in 1904. In World War II, it cost the U.S. a painful, bloody, island-to-island struggle to make the Pacific a peaceful lake. The U.S. never intends to be forced to fight that kind of war again...
...People a good deal more eloquent and persuasive than I am have talked frankly to Leopold . . . with complete lack of success . . . Why should I waste my time?" But at week's end after the King ordered the army, including two battalions brought from occupation duty in Germany, to quell rioting, Buset went to the palace...
...dead. Vast areas of the country were bitterly contested by warlords with their private armies and by Nationalist revolutionaries. The best of the Nationalists, Chiang Kaishek, Sun's disciple, set out from Canton at the head of a revolutionary army on his famous Northern Expedition to quell the warlords. Young Nationalist K. C. Wu tried to join Chiang's army. He was rejected with the explanation: "You are too educated...