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To: rdcbn

I refer all to the words of President Theodore Roosevelt -

“Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead.”

Perdicaris came home pretty quickly.


6 posted on 05/21/2014 9:40:13 AM PDT by alloysteel (Selective and willful ignorance spells doom, to both victim and perpetrator - mostly the perp.)
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To: alloysteel

There was a little more to it than just that: Roosevelt tried to get Britain and France to join the US in a combined military action to rescue Perdicaris, but the two countries refused and France actually reinforced its garrison in anticipation of an American assault. Instead, the two powers were covertly recruited to put pressure on the Sultan to accept Raisuli’s demands, which he agreed to do on 21 June.


38 posted on 05/21/2014 11:16:18 AM PDT by verga (Conservative, leaning libertatrian)
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