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.

Statistical and Documentary

12 pages in this part of The Story of Cuba.

Statistical and Documentary

Organization of the Cuban Army, as reported by General Gomez--Commerce of Spain with her Colonies--The Authentic Figures of the Population…

Statistical and Documentary: Province

Province of Santiago de Cuba.

Statistical and Documentary: Total

Maj.-Gen. Serafin Sanchez (white) 2,000 Col. Roban (white) 600 Col. Rego (white) 1,200 Col. Cortena (white) 300 Col. Felipe Toledo (white)…

Statistical and Documentary: Exportation

During 1894 : Pesetas. (Twenty cents.) Importations in Cuba from Spain 37,463,110 Exportation from Cuba to Spain 117,061,881 Difference in…

Statistical and Documentary: Spanish

Another measure adopted at the beginning of the revolution, and now accepted by us, is that permitting the burning of buildings used by the…

Statistical and Documentary: Weyler

THOMAS ESTRADA PALMA, Delegate of the Cuban Republic. Dear Friend: The war continues more active and hard, on account of the fierce…

Statistical and Documentary: Cuba

A DESPATCH FROM MACEO. IN CAMP IN CUZCO HILLS, PINAR DEL RIO PROVINCE, Cuba, April 14, 1896. W.R. HEARST, Journal, New York: Responding to…

Statistical and Documentary: Cuban

Nothing that I could say about the kindness of the American papers, especially the Journal, in the cause of Cuban liberty could adequately…

Statistical and Documentary: Havana

Ist. No newspaper shall publish any news concerning the war which is not authorized by the staff officers. 2nd. Neither shall be published…

Statistical and Documentary: Sugar

CHAPTER XXVIII. NATURAL RICHES AND NATIVE CHARMS OF CUBA. The Cultivation of Sugar Cane--Picture of a Cuban Garden--The Southern…

Statistical and Documentary: Dana

The delightful volume of Richard Henry Dana, Jr., author of "Two Years Before the Mast," on his vacation voyage to Cuba and back, gives an…

Statistical and Documentary: English

The American Encyclopaedia gives these figures of the extent of the Island: "The greatest length of the Island, measured through the…

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