Ypiranga incident
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The Ypiranga Incident occurred on April 21, 1914, at the port of Vera Cruz in Mexico during the Mexican Revolution. Ypiranga was a German steamship that was commissioned to transport arms and munitions to the Mexican federal government under Victoriano Huerta. The United States had placed Mexico under an arms embargo to stifle the flow of weaponry to the war-torn state, then in the throes of civil war, forcing Huerta's government to look to Europe[1][2] and Japan[3] for armaments.
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Part of the Mexican Revolution, Occupation of Vera Cruz | |||||||
The deck of Ypiranga around 1911 | |||||||
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United States | Germany |
Ypiranga tried to enter the harbor at Vera Cruz to unload on the first day of the US occupation but was detained by US troops who were ordered by President of the United States Woodrow Wilson to enforce the arms embargo he had placed on Mexico. There was neither a declaration of war on Mexico by the United States nor a formal blockade on its ports, thus the detention of Ypiranga was not legal and she was released. She proceeded to a port where the US military was absent, Puerto México (modern-day Coatzacoalcos, Vera Cruz), and was able to offload her cargo to Huerta's officials.[1][2]