ROOSEVELT, Franklin D. (1882-1945), President . Autograph draft telegram signed ("Roosevelt"), to Secretary of the Navy [Josephus Daniels], n.d. [April 1914]. 2 pages, 4to, docketed by FDR in pencil on verso; with envelope from Comm. in Chief, U.S. Pacific Reserve Fleet addressed in unknown hand to Mrs. Arthur A. Ravelon, 6 Feb. 1914 .
ROOSEVELT, Franklin D. (1882-1945), President . Autograph draft telegram signed ("Roosevelt"), to Secretary of the Navy [Josephus Daniels], n.d. [April 1914]. 2 pages, 4to, docketed by FDR in pencil on verso; with envelope from Comm. in Chief, U.S. Pacific Reserve Fleet addressed in unknown hand to Mrs. Arthur A. Ravelon, 6 Feb. 1914 . "ON VERGE OF WAR WITH MEXICO" ROOSEVELT'S ROLE IN A HEAVY-HANDED BIT OF GUNBOAT DIPLOMACY. In April 1914 a group of nine American sailors were arrested for entering an off-limits fueling station in Tampico, Mexico. The local American commander demanded their release, an apology, and a 21-gun salute. Mexican authorities complied with the first two requests, but not the third. At the same time, President Wilson learned of an incoming shipment of arms to Vera Cruz in support of the Victoriano Huerta government, whose legitimacy Wilson opposed. The "insult" to American sailors became the pretext for seizing Vera Cruz on 21 April 1914. Armed resistance to the landing resulted in fighting across the city, with American naval vessels bombarding the Naval Academy, where young cadets were putting up the fiercest resistance. American troops took the town--at the cost of some 20 American servicemen and nearly 200 Mexicans--and occupied it until November. Here Roosevelt, then Assistant Secretary of the Navy, sends this note to his chief back in Washington, from the early days of the action: "Am in touch with all preparations on Pacific Coast. Everything is in first class condition and only need is additional officers and men. Vessels in reserve should be placed in full commission and twenty five hundred additional men should be recruited for this purpose as a reserve force. In addition to this there should be 600 or 700 more Marines to bring total to 2000 for active service." These forces are necessary, he continues, "because of length of West Mexican Coast. I should be glad to see Colonel Waller ordered to Mexico. He is anxious to go..." He advises that a contingent of Marines seize Magdalena Bay "as calling port for ships going North and South." He feels certain they "can hold it without opposition..." On the verso, FDR has written in pencil: "Benerton April, 1914 - On verge of war with Mexico. I sent this in cipher."
ROOSEVELT, Franklin D. (1882-1945), President . Autograph draft telegram signed ("Roosevelt"), to Secretary of the Navy [Josephus Daniels], n.d. [April 1914]. 2 pages, 4to, docketed by FDR in pencil on verso; with envelope from Comm. in Chief, U.S. Pacific Reserve Fleet addressed in unknown hand to Mrs. Arthur A. Ravelon, 6 Feb. 1914 .
ROOSEVELT, Franklin D. (1882-1945), President . Autograph draft telegram signed ("Roosevelt"), to Secretary of the Navy [Josephus Daniels], n.d. [April 1914]. 2 pages, 4to, docketed by FDR in pencil on verso; with envelope from Comm. in Chief, U.S. Pacific Reserve Fleet addressed in unknown hand to Mrs. Arthur A. Ravelon, 6 Feb. 1914 . "ON VERGE OF WAR WITH MEXICO" ROOSEVELT'S ROLE IN A HEAVY-HANDED BIT OF GUNBOAT DIPLOMACY. In April 1914 a group of nine American sailors were arrested for entering an off-limits fueling station in Tampico, Mexico. The local American commander demanded their release, an apology, and a 21-gun salute. Mexican authorities complied with the first two requests, but not the third. At the same time, President Wilson learned of an incoming shipment of arms to Vera Cruz in support of the Victoriano Huerta government, whose legitimacy Wilson opposed. The "insult" to American sailors became the pretext for seizing Vera Cruz on 21 April 1914. Armed resistance to the landing resulted in fighting across the city, with American naval vessels bombarding the Naval Academy, where young cadets were putting up the fiercest resistance. American troops took the town--at the cost of some 20 American servicemen and nearly 200 Mexicans--and occupied it until November. Here Roosevelt, then Assistant Secretary of the Navy, sends this note to his chief back in Washington, from the early days of the action: "Am in touch with all preparations on Pacific Coast. Everything is in first class condition and only need is additional officers and men. Vessels in reserve should be placed in full commission and twenty five hundred additional men should be recruited for this purpose as a reserve force. In addition to this there should be 600 or 700 more Marines to bring total to 2000 for active service." These forces are necessary, he continues, "because of length of West Mexican Coast. I should be glad to see Colonel Waller ordered to Mexico. He is anxious to go..." He advises that a contingent of Marines seize Magdalena Bay "as calling port for ships going North and South." He feels certain they "can hold it without opposition..." On the verso, FDR has written in pencil: "Benerton April, 1914 - On verge of war with Mexico. I sent this in cipher."
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