Commander-in-Chief Cleveland orders the Captain F. M. Ramsey, commanding the USS Boston to make a “show of force” off the coast of Haiti, persuading its government to return a U.s. flagged cargo ship, which had been unlawfully seized.
[added 5/15/2022] Thanks to Jim Lorenz for this entry.
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