Memorial to the President of the United States,

by the American claimants against Paraguay wrapper title by United States, Paraguay Navigation Company

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n.p., n.d. ca. 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

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