The Story of Cuba

“The Story of Cuba is a tragedy.” Murat Halstead wrote it while the insurrection was still burning — four centuries of Spanish rule, the sugar and slave economy, Weyler’s camps, and an America deciding whether to intervene.

Table of Contents

Introduction

First Events and Early Influences

5 pages

Europe and America and the Indies

8 pages

Origin and Conduct of Cuban Wars

Spanish Story of the Treaty of Zanjon

The Spanish War Policy

7 pages

Characteristics of the Present Cuban War

3 pages

Leading Questions of Races and Crimes

5 pages

The Orders and Administration of Weyler

7 pages

The Forces Now Engaged in Cuba

2 pages

The Cuban Government

4 pages

The Play of President Pierce for Cuba

9 pages

English Failure in the West Indies

8 pages

The British and Provincial Conquest of Cuba

Early Incidents of the Present War

6 pages

Chapter XVI

3 pages

Chapter XVII

3 pages

Horrors of Moro Castle

2 pages

The Second Year of the Second War

3 pages

The Picturesque in the War

9 pages

An Irrepressible Conflict of Testimony

9 pages

The Record of Desolation and Despair

The Cause of Cuba

8 pages

The Crisis in Cuba

The Destiny of Cuba

Points of Pictures

6 pages

Statistical and Documentary

The Ancient Records of the Island

4 pages

Latest News from the Seat of War

Outline History of Cuba from May, 1896, to January, 1897

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