Anna McClarmonde Chase,
Mrs. Franklin Chase,
Heroine of Tampico 1846.
Staying behind at U.S. Consulate in Tampico Mexico under her British Passport, Anna Chase continued to run the family import business as her husband, the U.S. Consul and other Americans were expelled from Mexico at the beginning of the Mexican American War. Mrs. Chase fed info to the American fleet offshore through friendly British sailors. Tampico was a small port and stepping off point for American forces to take the Port of Vera Cruz further down the coast. Her intercepted stats on the size of the impending U.S. invasion by Marines sent the Mexicans to abandon Tampico which was captured without casualties on November 14, 1846.
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