The Baltimore Crisis was a diplomatic incident that took place between Chile and the United States of America as the result of US intervention in the Rebellion of 1891.
An international group of warships including the USS Charleston, USS San Francisco and USS Baltimore seized a rebel ship the "Itata", which was carrying Arms from the US to Iquique Harbour, for the insurgents in the Northern Provinces.
"A very mischievous Boy" by Patrick Egan, who wanted to provoke a war with Chile (Harper's Weekly, November 14, 1891).
In response to this action on October 16, 1891, a mob attacked a group of sailors on shore leave from the cruiser USS Baltimore outside of a bar in the Chilean port of Valparaíso. Two sailors were killed and 17 were injured.
After the success of the Revolution, the new Chilean government rejected American protests, but after United States President Benjamin Harrison sent a strong message to the United States Congress, Chile apologized and paid $75,000 in gold.
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- Foreign Relations of the United States of America for the Year 1891. Washington, D.C.: GPO, 1892.
- Foreign Relations of the United States of America for the Year 1892. Washington, D.C.: GPO, 1893.
- Hardy, Osgood (May 1922). "The Itata Incident". The Hispanic American Historical Review (Baltimore: Board of Editors of the Hispanic American Historical Review) 5 (2): 195–226. ISSN 0018-2168. OCLC 3518594.
- The Federal Reporter. vv 47-9, 56
- John W. Foster. Michael Devine, London: The Ohio University Press, 1981.
- Message of the President of the United States Respecting the Relations with Chile. Benjamin Harrison, Washington, D.C.: GPO, 1892, 664 pp.
- Dark Days in Chile. Maurice H. Hervey, New York: McMillan, 1892, 336 pp.
- "The Late Chilean Controversy" John Bassett Moore, in Political Science Quarterly, vol 8 (1893), pp 467-94.
- Histamar sobre el tema (Spanish)
- General History of the Foreign Affairs of Argentina (Spanish)
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