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Document Reference	Bu 46/102
Title	Letter from A. Buchanan, Madrid, Spain, to Lord John Russell [later 1st Earl Russell], Foreign Office, London; 26 Nov 1859.
Date	26 November 1859
Extent	1 f
Level	Piece
Content Description	Reveals the United States Government have complained about shots fired at the 'Arlington', as she passed the coast of Tarifa; reveals the United States 'will not tollerate such insulting and outrageous acts in future'; reveals the United States considers the Straits of Gibraltar to be 'the Great highway of the world, over which no territorial rights can be exercised by the occupants of neighbouring coasts'.
Term	foreign relations, Spain and U.S.A.
	Spanish affairs, government
	maritime vessels, ships, Arlington

Persons

Code	PersonName	Dates of existence
NA136	Buchanan; Andrew (1807-1882); 1st Baronet; diplomat	1807-1882
NA139	Russell; John (1792-1878); 1st Earl Russell	1792-1878

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