April 1885: US Warship Fires Salute to ‘Congo Free State’
The USS Lancaster, at the mouth of the Congo river, fires a twenty-one-gun salute in honor of King Leopold’s “Congo Free State.” [Hochschild, 1999, pp. 86-87]
The USS Lancaster, at the mouth of the Congo river, fires a twenty-one-gun salute in honor of King Leopold’s “Congo Free State.” [Hochschild, 1999, pp. 86-87]