Costa Rica is very much indebted to its first President, Juan Mora. Other successful Presidents were: Juan Rafael Mora, from 1850 to 1859; General Tomas Guardia, from 1872 to 1876, and again from 1878 to 1882; Bernardo Soto, from 1885 to 1889, and Rafael Iglesias, since 1894.
Since its independence there have been but few stirring events to agitate the country. The most important of them was the efficacious aid it gave to Nicaragua in 1857 in crushing the filibuster Walker, whose object was to add Nicaragua as slave territory to the United States.
CENTRAL AMERICA
Rand, McNally & Co’s. Indexed Atlas of the World Map of Central America
Copyright 1888, by Rand, McNally & Co.
Copyright 1892, by Rand, McNally & Co.
Rand, McNally & Co., Engravers, Chicago.
Map showing
Proposed Line of
NICARAGUA CANAL.
CENTRAL AMERICA.
(reverse side of the CENTRAL AMERICA map)
