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.

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Europe and America and the Indies: Virginius

The race between the correspondents for news was very hot. Every man as the representative of his newspaper was on his mettle, and enterprise was at a premium. McGahan had the advantage of being ward room guest on a man-of-war. Fox was paymaster's yeoman on the Pinta, the fastest boat in the navy. When we learned that the Virginius was to be surrendered, we all realized that that event would end the campaign.

The Despatch made for Bahia Honda. The circumstances of the surrender are thus related by the major:

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