The Spanish had immediately ordered the entire…
November 1873 CE
The Spanish had immediately ordered the entire crew of the Viginius to be put on trial as pirates.
The entire Virginius crew, both American and British citizens, are found guilty by a court martial and are sentenced to death.
The Spanish ignore the protest of the American vice-consul, who attempts to give American citizens legal aid.
On November 4, 1873, the four mercenaries that had accompanied Captain Fry are executed by firing squad without trial, since they had already been condemned as pirates.
After the executions, the British vice-consul at Santiago, concerned that one of the mercenaries killed, George Washington Ryan, claims British citizenship, wires Jamaica to receive aid from the British navy to stop further executions.
Hearing news of the Virginius capture and executions, Altamont de Cordova, a Jamaican resident, is able to get British Commodore A. F. R. de Horsey to send the HMS Niobe under Sir Lambton Lorraine to Santiago to stop further executions.
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