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.

Europe and America and the Indies

8 pages in this part of The Story of Cuba.

Europe and America and the Indies

British Conquest of Cuba--American Revolution and Cuban Insurrections--Americans Interested in Cuban Affairs--The Lopez and Virginius…

Europe and America and the Indies: British

Some of the most famous British seamen were charged by the Spaniards with piracy, and their proceedings were certainly rather irregular…

Europe and America and the Indies: Crittenden

There were insurrections in Cuba in 1823, 1829, 1835 and 1844, regarded with increasing interest and sympathy by the American people; and…

Europe and America and the Indies: Lampton

There came help, after the captain was shot with his crew, from an unexpected quarter, and the incident is the one gleam of white light in…

Europe and America and the Indies: Despatch

The adventurous life and heroic death of Captain Fry, and his farewell letter, made a deep and lasting impression upon the American people…

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…

Europe and America and the Indies: Spanish

It was about noon when we passed an old fort called Murillo, commanding the entrance to the harbor. Speed was then slackened, and the…

Europe and America and the Indies: Santiago

On Santiago's placid bay The town of Santiago lay; And in her walls a deed was done-- The foulest e'er the sun shone on. O Cuba! rarest…

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