Paraguay

1858 · 54442 — n.p. n.d. 1858. 8vo pp. 20; self-wrappers; fine. UC-Riverside and AAS only in OCLC. In 1855 while charting the Rio de Plata Basin the United States ship U.S.S. Water Witch was fired upon by a Paraguayan fort killing the helmsman Samuel Chaney. This outraged the U.S. government who along with the U.S. & Paraguay Navigation Company decided to bring the incident to the Supreme Court. In 1858 began the Paraguay Expedition the purpose of which was to demand an apology from the Paraguyan government and to address alleged insults against the Navigation Company. The result of the expedition was that Paraguay apologized the Chaney's family was indemnified and a new advantageous commercial treaty between Paraguay and the United States was forged. unknown