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In all, the battle lasted "less than half an hour." ĭuring the firefight, five Americans were wounded and three captured (one of which was "slightly wounded") and soon released. These troops had to seize handcars and catch up with the train. Vulte, who had sought refuge by the roadbed. The train now started picking up steam, leaving behind the Marines, led by Captain Nelson P. The most intense period of fighting lasted five minutes, "then gradually died out." Meanwhile, the train's engineer had taken cover under his seat, and Butler had to get him out from that hiding spot. Brown, were soon hit by fire from the Nicaraguan rebels. Browne, Private Ray Betzer, and Trumpeter W. forces, both inside the train and outside (taking cover alongside the roadbed), including the machine gunners on top of the boxcars, "returned fire." Three Marines, Private C. īefore long, snipers in the houses on both sides of the railroad track and 150 "armed horsemen" began shooting at the American-occupied train. Butler had the train stopped, so a corpsman could be summoned to aid Bourne. Bourne, who was next to Butler, in the finger. These two men, possibly drunk, opened fire with pistols, striking Corporal J. The train had nearly gotten through the town, when, at Nindiri Station, the Americans were confronted by two mounted Nicaraguans. On the evening of 19 September 1912 the Americans continued their journey into the city of Masaya, with Butler, "legs dangling," sitting at the front of the train on a flatcar placed in front of the engine. The Americans negotiated with Zeledón for safe passage past the two imposing hills. Traveling by train, Butler's forces reached the outskirts of Masaya, where they were threatened by rebels led by Benjamín Zeledón atop the hills of Coyotepe and Barranca.
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#Banania 1912 plus
In the midst of a civil war in Nicaragua between the Conservative government and rebels, consisting of Liberals and dissident Conservatives, an expedition of 400 American Marines and sailors, plus "a pair of Colts and 3-inch guns," led by Smedley Butler was sent out to seize Granada from rebel forces.