A Mexican firing squad executed French adventurer Gaston Raousset in Guaymas, Sonora, the port city where both of his failed filibustering expeditions began.  (By Brian Bockelman)
Source Citation
              David F. Marley, Wars of the Americas: A Chronology of Armed Conflict in the New World, 1492 to the Present (Santa Barbara, California:  ABC-CLIO, 1998), 522.
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          Crime/Disasters