Haiti 1914
Haiti 1914
I was reading the chronology of the Marine Corps that Im sure all American members have seen, and it said American, German, French and British marines landed in Haiti only months before WW1, what happened to these marines at the start of the war. The German Navy Deployment post on this thread has listed the SMS Vineta and Bremen in Haiti in 1914, what happened to these ships?
SMS Vineta:
http://www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk/sms_vineta.htm
SMS Bremen(sunk in the Baltic by mine 1915):
http://www.deutsche-schutzgebiete.de/sms_bremen.htm
A good link as well:
Die preußisch-deutsche Marine in Lateinamerika 1866 -1914
http://docserver.bis.uni-oldenburg.de/p ... nhalt.html
It would be interesting to find out the full details on both ships at Haiti.
http://www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk/sms_vineta.htm
SMS Bremen(sunk in the Baltic by mine 1915):
http://www.deutsche-schutzgebiete.de/sms_bremen.htm
A good link as well:
Die preußisch-deutsche Marine in Lateinamerika 1866 -1914
http://docserver.bis.uni-oldenburg.de/p ... nhalt.html
It would be interesting to find out the full details on both ships at Haiti.
My understanding is that both these ships had returned to Germany by mid 1914,replaced at the West Indies station by SMS Karlsruhe and SMS Dresden.
Karlsruhe blew up in November 1914:
http://deutsche-schutzgebiete.de/sms_karlsruhe_1.htm
Dresden(with one Wilhelm Canaris serving aboard) rounded the Horn to link up with Graf von Spee.Scuttled,Chile,March 1915:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS_Dresden
Karlsruhe blew up in November 1914:
http://deutsche-schutzgebiete.de/sms_karlsruhe_1.htm
Dresden(with one Wilhelm Canaris serving aboard) rounded the Horn to link up with Graf von Spee.Scuttled,Chile,March 1915:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS_Dresden
A German coaling station was being considered according to here:
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ ... ti1914.htm
Môle Saint-Nicolas had previously been requested by the US as a naval station.
It appears that the 200 or so German merchants there also intermarried with the French speaking Haitian elite.
I can't find any evidence that a German policy of taking over the territory existed.
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ ... ti1914.htm
Môle Saint-Nicolas had previously been requested by the US as a naval station.
It appears that the 200 or so German merchants there also intermarried with the French speaking Haitian elite.
I can't find any evidence that a German policy of taking over the territory existed.
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Re: Haiti 1914
https://history.state.gov/milestones/1914-1920/haitiIn 1914, the Wilson Administration sent marines into Haiti who removed $500,000 from the Haitian National Bank in December of 1914 for safe-keeping in New York, thus giving the U.S. control of the bank.
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