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    The Ostend Manifesto, also known as the Ostend Circular, was a document written in 1854 that described the rationale for the United States to purchase...
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    [citation needed] An October 1854 meeting of American envoys led to the Ostend Manifesto. Important for the image of the town was the attention it started to...
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    that Spain refused to sell the island, became known as the Ostend Manifesto. The Manifesto was swiftly doomed by its leak to the New York Herald and the...
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    Some wanted to obtain Cuba as slave territory, as espoused by the Ostend Manifesto. Northern Democrats called for "popular sovereignty", which in theory...
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    administration was further damaged when several of his diplomats issued the Ostend Manifesto calling for the annexation of Cuba, a document that was roundly criticized...
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    was severely criticized after several of his diplomats issued the Ostend Manifesto, which called for the annexation of Cuba, by force if necessary. His...
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    France did pull out and Mexican nationalists executed Maximilian. The Ostend Manifesto of 1854 was a proposal circulated by American diplomats that proposed...
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  • to 1900 Ostend Company (1722–1731), a chartered trading company in the Austrian Netherlands (modern-day Belgium) Ostend Manifesto 9471 Ostend, a minor...
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    attempt to buy it in 1854 during the Pierce administration known as the Ostend Manifesto, which backfired, causing a scandal and severely weakening Pierce's...
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    proposal grew out of previous unsuccessful proposals to annex Cuba (Ostend Manifesto), parts of Central America (Filibuster War), and all of Mexico (All...
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