Honduras Incident

The Honduras Incident, sometimes known as the Confederate-British War or the Almost War in the Confederacy, was a major military incident which occurred in 1894.

Sparked by an incident involving Confederate militias stationed in Mexico, the military incident escalated into a brief naval war between the Confederacy and the British Empire, in which the Royal Navy decisively defeated Confederate forces before withdrawing to Kingston. This conflict had a profound effect on the Confederacy's naval and diplomatic policy in the next decade.

Background
The conquest of Mexico in the Confederate-Mexican War both led to a vast increase in the Confederacy's territory, stretching their military resources thin; faced with severe resistance throughout Mexico, the Confederate government reacted by passing the 1885 Militia Act.

By the 1890s, resistance in the north and east of Mexico had been largely pacified, but continued to be a serious problem around the southeast of the Mexican territories, especially abutting the border with Guatemala and British Honduras (modern Belize).