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.

Latest News from the Seat of War

15 pages in this part of The Story of Cuba.

Latest News from the Seat of War

Monotony of Military Situations--The Trocha as a Delusion--Fighting General Pando Goes Home--Strange Paralysis of Spanish Forces--How it…

Latest News from the Seat of War: Spanish

Still we find the interest centering upon the alleged trocha, which has become a synonym for doing nothing, and this lunar object is near…

Latest News from the Seat of War: Maceo

Walter S. Whitcomb, of Springfield, Mass., who made the most remarkable escape on record from Moro Castle a few weeks ago, happening to…

Latest News from the Seat of War: Weyler

There are two recent Havana despatches that may mean something out of the common, and relieve the dull and dreary round of labored…

Latest News from the Seat of War: Bernal

A Herald correspondent telegraphs from Havana, via Key West, which means that the letter was sent by private conveyance to a wire that is…

Latest News from the Seat of War: Havana

It is reported from Havana that Gen. Weyler has made efforts to induce five thousand of the Havana volunteers to hold a section of the…

Latest News from the Seat of War: Spaniards

What is the reason the Spaniards do nothing decisive with their two hundred thousand men? The general explanation is that the answer must…

Latest News from the Seat of War: Island

And the general told the Herald he was going to be on the offensive all summer. A sugar broker in Havana, commenting on General Weyler's…

Latest News from the Seat of War: Bermuda

The Spaniards with their slow ships are avoided at sea as their slow columns are evaded on land. The Bermuda is faster than the Spanish…

Latest News from the Seat of War: Milton

Owen Milton, who was captured by the Spanish authorities on board of the Competitor and condemned to death, left Key West as a newspaper…

Latest News from the Seat of War: Madrid

UNITED STATES LEGATION IN SPAIN, MADRID, Nov. 14, 1873. (Rec'd Dec. 11.) SIR: I have the honor to forward herewith a copy of a note this…

Latest News from the Seat of War: Sickles

I am, etc., SICKLES.

Latest News from the Seat of War: England

Constant efforts are made by this cabinet to conciliate England. Castelar is every day at British legation. The press has received an…

Latest News from the Seat of War: Fish

FISH.

Latest News from the Seat of War: Spain

Spain did not long remain a "sister republic," and it made no difference to Cuba whether she was or not. Cuba never had any rights…

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