Search Strategies & Selected Articles

The links below provide access to a sampling of articles from historic newspapers that can be found in Chronicling America. You can further explore the topic of "Occupation of Vera Cruz" using the following search strategies:

Use the following terms in combination, proximity, or as a phrase:
Vera Cruz, Tampico, Mexico, Funston, Wilson, Victoriano Huerta, Venustiano Cerranza, border, Navy, blockade, mediation, Niagara Falls
It is important to use a specific date range if looking for articles for a particular event in order to narrow your results. To narrow your results for this topic, search between April-November of 1914.

Selected Articles from Chronicling America

"American Marines Taken in Tampico"
The Daily Missoulian (Missoula, MT), April 11, 1914, Morning, Page 8, Image 8, col. 1-2.
"Seizure of Ports to be First Move in Mexico; Wilson Opposed to War"
The Rock Island Argus (Rock Island, IL), April 20, 1914, Home Edition, Image 1, col. 1-5.
President Wilson Asks Congress for Power to Invade Mexico"
Harrisburg Telegraph (Harrisburg, PA), April 20, 1914, Image 1, col. 1-8".
"Americans Occupy Vera Cruz"
The Times Dispatch (Richmond, VA), April 22, 1914, Image 1, col. 1-5.
"Two Hundred Mexican Lives Pay for Four Americans Dead at Vera Cruz"
The Bisbee Daily Review (Bisbee, AZ), April 22, 1914, Image 1, col. 1-4.
"Four Americans Reported Slain by Native Mob in Mexico City"
The Rock Island Argus (Rock Island, IL), April 25, 1914, Image 1, col. 1-7.
"Huerta to Lead Army?"
University Missourian (Columbia, MO) , April 24, 1914, Image 1, col. 1-5.
"Army Movement to Support the Navy. Funston To Command Infantry at Vera Cruz"
Hopkinsville Kentuckian (Hopkinsville, KY), April 25, 1914, Image 1, col. 1-6.
"All Mexico May Unite in Effort to Fight Off American Invasion"
The Liberal Democrat (Liberal, KS), May 1, 1914, Image 9, col. 1-6.
"Watchful Waiting is Monotonous and Unsafe Too"
The Daily Missoulian (Missoula, MT), May 9, 1914, Image 1, col. 1-7.
"Marines Fighting From Vera Cruz Barricade"
The Bee (Earlington, KY), May 15, 1914, Image 6, col. 1-3.
"Troops Leave Mexican Port"
The Ogden Standard (Ogden City, UT) , November 23, 1914, 4 P.M. City Edition, Page 3, Image 3, col. 2-3.

Occupation of Vera Cruz: Topics in Chronicling America

Search Strategies & Selected Articles

Selected Articles from Chronicling America