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- Roosevelt to Bacon, September 12, 1906, Case 244/117, Septem
ber 12, 1906, Num. File, 1906-1910, Vol. XXXVII, RG 59. - Roosevelt to Charles W. Eliot, September 13, 1906, Roosevelt
Papers. - Roosevelt to Bacon, September 14, 1906, Foreign Relations, 1906,
p. 480. - Bonaparte to Bureau of Navigation, September 14, 1906, Area
8 File (September, 1906), RG 45. "Annual Report of the Colonel Com
mandant of the United States Marine Corps... 1906," in Annual
Report of the Colonel Commandant of the United States Marine Corps
to the Secretary of the Navy, 1893-1906 (Washington, 1906), pp.
21-22.
Two more Marine battalions, formed in thirty-six hours, embarked
on September 25 and by the first week in October there were twenty-
eight hundred Marines ashore or afloat near Cuba. - Roosevelt to Gonzalo de Quesada, September 14, 1906, Foreign
Relations, 1906, pp. 480-81. The Cuban minister was in fact vacation
ing in Europe and did not see the letter until after the Peace Mission
departed from Washington. - Lt. J. V. Klemann, USN, to Fullam, September 25, 1906, and
Fullam to Secretary of the Navy, October 29, 1906, both in the Fullam
Papers. - Bonaparte to Roosevelt, September 18 and 19, 1906, Bonaparte
Papers, Library of Congress, and Secretary of the Navy to Command
ing Officer, "Marietta," September 19, 1906, Fullam Papers. Bonaparte
informed the President that the State Department wrote "practically all
orders" for the vessels in Cuban waters. - Marquez Sterling, Proceso historico de la Enmienda Platt, I,
346-47.