We Got Democracy Guns, Baby. They're Better Than Your King Guns

In the mid 1880s, Columbia was convulsed by a civil war between the conservative government and an insurgent liberal army. The resulting situation degenerated under war riot. Some rioters looted property owned by the French Canal Company who asked and received the help of US Marines to round up and execute looters. 58 persons among whom it is believed were several innocent people were thus summarily dispatched.