Ypiranga incident
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ypiranga-incident-181-11948810
title:
Ypiranga incident
text:
The Ypiranga Incident occurred on April 21, 1914, at the port of Veracruz in Mexico during the Mexican Revolution. Ypiranga was a German steamship that was commissioned to transport arms and munitions to the Mexican federal government under Victoriano Huerta. The United States had placed Mexico under an arms embargo to stifle the flow of weaponry to the war-torn state, then in the throes of civil war, forcing Huerta's government to look to Europe and Japan for armaments. Ypiranga tried to enter
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
1914 detention of a German ship by US forces
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ypiranga_incident
date created:
2008-11-25T05:40:57Z
date modified:
2024-09-05T22:18:36Z
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13
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