“Very Good, I Shall Burn Her”: The 1870 Torching of the Pirate Ship Forward and US-Mexican Relations
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Abstract
Cet article s'adresse à l'incendie audacieuse en juin 1870 du vaisseau pirate Forward sur le fleuve mexicain Teacapan par les marins américains du USS Mohican, aux événements qui l'ont précédé, et à ses effets au Mexique et aux États-Unis.Le Mexique manquait les forces navales nécessaires pour parer aux déprédations du Forward, et le Mohican est immédiatement entré en action, sans sanction diplomatique, mais également sans toucher aux relations amicales entre les États-Unis et le Mexique.Ainsi l'incident éclaircit les relations amicales accumulées entre les États-Unis et le régime de Benito Juárez au Mexique pendant les années 1860, et également l'autoritarisme croissant de la marine américaine, dont les officiers ont commencé à se considérer policiers de l'hémisphère occidental.On 17 June 1870, after forty miles and over twelve hours of exhausting oaring on the Teacapan River of western Mexico, the sixty-man expedition from the USS Mohican finally sighted their prize as the sun began to set: the pirate ship Forward.Led by Lieutenant Willard Brownson, USN, the sailors stealthily crept up on the vessel that had only the month prior ravaged the city of Guaymas, Mexico.Silently climbing on board, Brownson and some of the expedition's party found the ship largely abandoned before a round of shot roared at them like a clap of thunder from the coast, apparently from pirates who laid in wait on shore for the seamen.The sailors quickly threw themselves against the ship's bulwarks for safety.While still taking fire from the ambushing marauders, Brownson ordered his men to inspect the ship to see if she were moveable.Receiving intelligence that the Forward was in fact too hard aground to capture, he thus made the decision to scuttle her by emphatically declaring, "very good, I shall burn her." Still under fire, Brownson ordered his men to collect the ship's turpentine store and to ignite the Forward.While flame began to consume the piratical vessel, the lieutenant and his party bravely returned to their transports, eventually escaping to the safety of the 1
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Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.008 | 0.007 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 0.000 |
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