Despite this, European interventions continued to occur in American countries with the tacit or explicit support of the United States. These interventions include the re-establishment of British rule over the Falkland Islands in 1833, the French naval blockade of Argentine ports between 1839 and 1840, the Anglo-French blockade of the River Plate from 1845 to 1850, the failed Spanish invasion of the Dominican Republic between 1861 and 1865, the French intervention in Mexico between 1862 and 1865, and the establishment of British crown control over the Mosquito Coast in Nicaragua and of the Guayana Essequiba in Venezuela in 1855.