OSTEND MANIFESTO


Meaning of OSTEND MANIFESTO in English

(1854) Secret document written by U.S. diplomats at Ostend, Belg.

, describing a plan to acquire Cuba from Spain. On orders from U.S. secretary of state William Marcy , three U.S. diplomats

minister to Britain James Buchanan , minister to France John Y. Mason, and minister to Spain Pierre Soulé

devised a plan to purchase or, if necessary, seize Cuba for the U.S. Publication of the aggressively worded document, and Soulé's advocacy of slavery, caused Marcy to denounce it.

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