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Why did the U.S. warship Lexington destroy the Argentine settlement in 1831?
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In 1831, the U.S. warship Lexington destroyed the Argentine settlement on East Falkland as a direct reprisal for the arrest of three U.S. ships that had been engaged in seal hunting in the area.1