...control and protection of any isthmian canal; Britain and the United States pledged themselves not to 'occupy, or fortify, or colonize, or assume or exercise any dominion over . . . any part of Central America'. While the treaty lessened the hostile atmosphere created by Chatfield...

...governments would not exert exclusive control over any isthmian canal; nor would they colonize or seek "dominion over Nicaragua, Costa Rica, the Mosquito coast, or any part of Central America." Senator Lewis Cass supported ratification of the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty, but events...

...Central America but that neither country would seek its exclusive control. They also agreed not "to occupy, or fortify, or colonize, or assume, or exercise...Nicaragua, Costa Rica, the Mosquito Coast or any part of Central America. " Unfortunately the treaty was ambiguously worded and later created a number of controversies...

...asserted that the ClaytonBulwer Treaty clearly stipulated that both parties pledged that neither will ever "occupy, or fortify, or colonize, or assume or exercise...Nicaragua, Costa Rica, the Mosquito Coast, or any part of Central America." The American chief executive complained that Britain had ignored these mutually agreed-upon...

...will ever erect or maintain any fortifications commanding the same, or in the vicinity thereof, or occupy, or fortify, or colonize, or assume, or exercise...Nicaragua, Costa Rica, the Mosquito Coast, or any part of Central America." The United States expected the British to withdraw from Greytown and the Mosquito...

...country would "ever obtain or maintain for itself any exclusive control" over a Nicaraguan canal or "occupy, or fortify, or colonize, or assume or exercise...Nicaragua, Costa Rica, the Mosquito Coast, or any part of Central America." 14 Britain contrived to construe this language to permit it to retain existing settlements,...

..."erect or maintain fortifications commanding the same. . .or occupy, or fortify, or colonize, or assume any dominion over Nicaragua, Costa Rica, the Mosquito coast, or any part of Central America, or of assuming or exercising dominion over the same." Neither nation would "conclude...