Liberia: Description, History, ProblemsStarr, Frederick
History
Liberia: Description, History, Problems
Starr, Frederick
Liberia
1885 November 11. Boundary dispute settled; Mano R. boundary.
1885- Efforts at adjusting loan of 1871.
1891
1891 October 26. French claim Cavalla R. boundary.
1892 Joseph James Cheeseman, president.
December 8. Cavalla R. boundary accepted, after protest.
1893 Third Grebo war.
Kru declaration of adhesion.
1896 November. Vice-President William David Coleman takes
presidency.
Grebo trouble.
1897 German consulate offers protectorate.
1898 Liberia admits £70,000 to £80,000 on Loan of 1871.
1899 February 10. Hostain’s and d’Ollones’ expedition; affecting
Franco-Liberian boundary.
1900 Coleman expedition to subdue interior; resignation.
Garretson Wilmot Gibson, president.
1902 French boundary negotiations.
1903 French treaty fixing boundary; Liberia paid £4,750.
Anglo-Liberian boundary demarcated; Mano R.; Kanre-Lahun in
Liberia.
Missions to chiefs one hundred miles up the Cavalla River, also
up the St. Paul’s.
1904 Arthur Barclay, president.
Congress of kings--Golah, Boporo, Mpesse.
March. Effort to fix French boundary from Tembi Kunda to
Cavalla R.
May 19. German Government complains of Liberian judiciary.
August. Changes in Liberian Development Chartered Co.; also in
January, 1906.
1905 January. Permission given for British force to pacify the Kissi
district.
February. President Barclay visited Cape Mount and treated with
Vai.
July 27. Vice-President J. D. Summerville died.
1906 Arthur Barclay, president.
January 5. Agreement with Liberian Development Co., for a loan
of £100,000.
Lomax in Kanre-Lahun district.
1907 May 7. Amendment to Constitution lengthening presidential term
to four years.
Summer: Commission sent to adjust difficulties with Great
Britain and France.
August 29. President Barclay reaches London; Great Britain
demands reforms as condition to discussion of disagreement.
September 18. President Barclay yields to French demands and
accepts treaty.
Severance of relations between Liberian government and Liberian
Development Co.
Tripartite Agreement; Liberia, Erlanger Co., Liberian
Development Co.; Liberia takes over responsibility for loan of
1906.
Trouble at River Cess.
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