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American Filibustering and the British Navy: A Caribbean Analogue of Mediterranean “Piracy”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2017

Richard W. Van Alstyne
Richard W. Van Alstyne*
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State College, Chico, California
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American Journal of International Law , Volume 32 , Issue 1 , January 1938 , pp. 138 - 142
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 1938

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1 Scroggs, W. O. , Filibusters and Financiers (New York, 1916), is the standard account.Google Scholar

2 Navy Department, Confidential Letters, 1857–1861: Toucey to Mcintosh, Nov. 17, 1858. I am indebted to the late Professor E. D. Adams for this note.

3 There is some evidence, which I have been unable to confirm, that the Pierce Administration for awhile connived at filibustering. No proclamation was made against it until December, 1855, although the expeditions had actually left the United States the preceding spring. Furthermore, there appears to have been a mysterious connection between the Accessory Transit Company and certain members of Pierce’s cabinet, if not the President himself.

4 Van Alstyne, R. W., “The Central American Policy of Lord Palmerston, 1846–1848,” Hispanic American Historical Review, XVI (Aug., 1936), 339–359. The Clayton–Bulwer Treaty of April 19,1850, with the United States did not alter the legal status of the protectorate. Law Officers’ Reports: America, 1846–1853. F.O. 83/2208 (British Public Record Office).Google Scholar

5 Alstyne Van, R. W., “Anglo–American Relations, 1853–1857. British Statesmen on the Clayton–Bulwer Treaty and American Expansion,” American Historical Review, XLII (April, 1937), 491–500.Google Scholar

6 Law Officers’ Reports: America, 1854–1855. F.O. 83/2209.

7 British Legation Archives, America (F.O. 115/153). Public Record Office.

8 Ibid., F.O. 115/165.

9 Napier to Clarendon, No. 284, Dec. 22, 1857. F.O. 5/675.

10 Palmerston to Clarendon, Jan. 6, 1858. Clarendon Papers.

11 Malmesbury to Napier, No. 182, Nov. 26, 1858. F.O. 5/689.

12 Ibid., No. 133, Confidential, Oct. 13, 1858; No. 160, Nov. 3, 1858; No. 171, Nov. 13, 1868, Legation Archives, America, F.O. 115/191, 192; Napier to Malmesbury, No. 272, Nov. 20, 1858, F.O. 5/694.