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.

Origin and Conduct of Cuban Wars

10 pages in this part of The Story of Cuba.

Origin and Conduct of Cuban Wars

Spanish Passion for Cuba--Growth of Cuban War Spirit--The Ten Years' War Compared with the Present--Gomez and Campos in Both--Tacon's…

Origin and Conduct of Cuban Wars: Island--the

Spain chose to selfishly use Cuba--to govern the Island through swarms of office holders, to arbitrarily order the course of her…

Origin and Conduct of Cuban Wars: Tacon

In Clarence King's pamphlet, "Shall Cuba be free?" he very clearly sketches the first flagrancy of discordant relations between Spain and…

Origin and Conduct of Cuban Wars: Cortes

There was nothing that Tacon was not authorized or that he scrupled to do, and his action in putting his foot on the liberties of Cuba was…

Origin and Conduct of Cuban Wars: Cubans

The ten years' war in Cuba the more interested the United States because we had abolished slavery by the war process, and the same work was…

Origin and Conduct of Cuban Wars: Spain

The revolutionary manifesto says, the compact Spain proposed with the Cubans through Campos, the acceptance of which closed the…

Origin and Conduct of Cuban Wars: Havana

We do not pretend to give a table of the crimes committed in Havana and elsewhere, such for example as those at the theatre of Villanueva…

Origin and Conduct of Cuban Wars: Spanish

The "Book of Blood" claims for the Cubans all the humanities, and says that at the beginning of the war they took many Spanish prisoners at…

Origin and Conduct of Cuban Wars: Bayamo

Women that are not living at their own homes, or at the house of their relatives, will collect in the town of Jiguani, or Bayamo, where…

Origin and Conduct of Cuban Wars: Cespedes

The standard of revolt was at length raised by Carlos Manuel de Cespedes, on his estate of Demajagua, at a short distance from the town of…

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