Military Occupation in Haiti: Staging Pan-Whiteness in a World of Color Crisis is used as a mechanism to put in motion a series of imperial performatives and performances. The sinking of the USS Maine, for example, was a prelude to the War of 1898, the revision of the Cuban constitution ...
She was wrecked off Maine in January 1875.CSS FloridaSister ship to the Alabama, the Florida under Captain John Newland Maffitt was almost as infamous. She broke the Union blockade of Mobile twice—once sailing in to take on stores and gun accessories, and out again on Jan. 16, 1863, ...