Tampico Affair
| Military history of Mexico Military history of the United States | |||||||||||||
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| Conflict | Tampico Affair | ||||||||||||
| Date | 1914 | ||||||||||||
| Place | Veracruz, Mexico | ||||||||||||
| Result | Bombardment of the city | ||||||||||||
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The Tampico Affair occurred in April 1914, when drunken U.S. Marines were mistakenly arrested in the Mexican city of Tampico, Tamaulipas. President Woodrow Wilson then ordered U.S. forces to bombard the Mexican port city of Veracruz and occupy the city, in hopes of destabilizing Gen. Victoriano Huerta's government.
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