Answer: The U.S. banana companies were never allowed ownership of the large acreage that they farmed in Honduras, since such land’s ownership was prohibited ownership to foreigners. They did have a long term arrangement for use of the land for growing/exporting bananas, but each box of bananas exported was taxed $1.00 or more.
The likely reason as to how Lee small army troops defeated
the Mcclean’s larger force and kept the union troops out of Richmond because Mcclean
was being too cautious though it was only on the first day that they won
because the following day, Lee’s army lost the battle.
