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.

The Orders and Administration of Weyler

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The Orders and Administration of Weyler

A Vigorous and Comprehensive Series of Orders, Declarations, Decrees and Commands, and Promises of Restoration of Order in these Provinces…

The Orders and Administration of Weyler: Spain

I take charge of my duties with the expectation ever constant in me of preserving its possession for Spain, determined, as she is in this…

The Orders and Administration of Weyler: Havana

February 25th there was a requisition for ten percent. of the number of horses used for running cabs, stages and tram-cars. This, which had…

The Orders and Administration of Weyler: Spanish

Then followed elaborate instructions very carefully devised--the main thing being to reinforce the troops with the civil guard to stop the…

The Orders and Administration of Weyler: Cubans

This order was regarded by the Cubans, sympathetic with the rebellion, as extremely menacing and vindictive, as it was plainly seen the…

The Orders and Administration of Weyler: Spaniards

This touched one of the sorest points of the Spaniards, whose greatest and incurable trouble is, the rebels are constantly perfectly…

The Orders and Administration of Weyler: Island--the

Conceding the vigor of the orders of the captain-general, and the intimate knowledge they show of the state of the Island, as well as his…

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