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41 Haiti/160 Argentina
MID#4016
Started in October 1993. See the narrative in the 2 United States of America/41 Haiti
dyad dispute list.
41 Haiti/200 United Kingdom
MID#1683
Dispute Number: 1683
Date(s): March 1883 to May 28, 1884
Participants: 41 Haiti/200 United Kingdom
Outcome (and Settlement): Unclear (Negotiated)
Fatalities: None
Narrative: This dispute occurred because of outstanding claims on Haiti demanded
by the British government. Haiti had delayed answering the claims for ten months by
transferring the discussions to Washington, but, on June 20, 1883, the British diplomat
in Haiti was ordered to step up the pressure for the claims. He did so by delivering a
threat made by the British government to occupy the island of Tortuga as surety for
a $628,000 claim.
Also happening during this time was a Haitian revolt. In September 1883, the troops
in the port of Jeremie fired upon a British ship carrying Haitian refugees. On May 28,
1884, the Haitian government signed an executive agreement providing for a solution
to the claims through the arbitration of the United States.
Coding changes: Start Date changed from July 1883. Outcome changed from
Unclear. Settlement changed from None.
MID#2683
Dispute Number: 2683
Date(s): March 26, 1887 to April 23, 1887
Participants: 200 United Kingdom/41 Haiti
Outcome (and Settlement): Yield by side B (Negotiated)
Fatalities: None
Narrative: In the 1870s, Great Britain made a claim against Haiti on behalf of a Brit-
ish citizen, Madame Maunder, who had been granted the Haitian island of Tortuga but
had failed to pay rent upon it for five consecutive years. Because of Madame Maun-
der’s failure to pay rent on her island, the Haitian government seized the products of
Tortuga and moved forward in voiding the contract granting the island to Madame
Maunder. Maunder’s claim came to fruition in 1887, when on March 26, Great Brit-
ain sent an envoy to Port-au-Prince with the ultimatum of either handing the island
to the British or paying one million dollars to the British government; otherwise,
Britain would bombard the principal ports of Haiti. Over the next month and a half