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27.12.11 BROWN
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LUKSHIDES
27.12.15 BROWN
27.12.17 CRONMILLER
27.12.18 MARTIN
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27.12.11.
Lukshides, Contact near Santa Isabel,
Western Segovias
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HEADQUARTERS
SECOND BRIGADE MARINE CORPS
MANAGUA, NICARAGUA
20 December, 1927
B-2 REPORT
. . . (E) MILITARY OPERATIONS
. . . A patrol of eight Marines,
commanded by Corporal Lukshides, while
reconnoitering the area between Santa
Isabel and Santa Lucia, Department of
Nueva Segovia, came in contact with a
band of about ten bandits who opened
fire on the Marines patrol. The
fire was returned resulting in the death
of one bandit and the wounding of
several others, but, due to the fact of
the intense darkness and rain, the
patrol was unable to determine the exact
number of casaualties inflicted.
Such conditions also made it inadvisable
to give pursuit through the heavy woods
of this area. One muzzle loading
rifle and one horse were captured by
this patrol. Our forces suffered
no casualties.
Another reconnaissance of this area was
made early in the morning searching all
houses but no bandits or arms could be
found, although several of the houses
showed evidence of having been recently
occupied and hurriedly vacated.
RG127/43A/3
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Summary & Notes:
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Unclear exactly where this brief contact
took place, but the 1934 US Army map shows a
place called Santa Isabel a couple miles
south of Somoto in the Western Segovias,
which would be consistent with other
evidence of Conservative gang and Sandinista
rebel activity in this same general area.
This report appeared not in a separate
combat or patrol report but in the serial
B-2 Intelligence Report covering the period
11-17 December 1927. Hunch that these
were Conservative gang members, not EDSN
rebels, but in the end their affiliation
remains unknown. Also unclear about
the exact date of the episode, but the
report follows two reports dated Dec. 11,
and the convention of these documents was to
list "military operations" from oldest to
the most recent, which means the date was
most likely Dec. 11 or 12.
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Already by Dec. 1927, it was apparently
routine for Marine Corps patrols to "search
all houses" whenever they had the least
suspicion of "bandit" activities.
Imagine heavily-armed foreigners demanding
the absolute right to enter and search your
house whenever they wanted.
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