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 Record of Desolation and Despair

16 pages in this part of The Story of Cuba.

The Record of Desolation and Despair

The Torch is Mightier than the Sword--Lists of the Plantations and Towns Burned--Dramatic Scenes and Thrilling Incidents in the Doomed…

The Record of Desolation and Despair: Pinar

The Spanish authorities have furnished a list of plantations destroyed by insurgents during this war in the four western…

The Record of Desolation and Despair: Weyler

In justifying the war of the torch and explaining his invasion of the west end, Antonio Maceo says, in a letter dated at El Rubi, at Pinar…

The Record of Desolation and Despair: Marianao

The mayor of Wajay, near Marianao, April 18, accompanied by a policeman, was held up on the Arango estate by a rebel band, under Juan…

The Record of Desolation and Despair: Matanzas

The insurgent leaders, Vincente Nunez and Eduardo Garcia, with a force estimated to number about 1,500 men, are encamped at the plantation…

The Record of Desolation and Despair: Murias

Quite recently we learn that the rebels have burned all the tobacco plantations belonging to Pedro Murias, near Dimas, in the Pinar del Rio…

The Record of Desolation and Despair: Spanish

There can be no doubt that the majority of houses on the main roads will be deserted. There are many instances of men who have sent their…

The Record of Desolation and Despair: Spaniards

It will be observed here that the Spaniards and Cubans alike are frightened by the imminent danger of famine, and it is certain to come…

The Record of Desolation and Despair: Cubans

An April 23rd letter gives a summary of the prostration of Cuba, the collapse of her finances and industries, showing the progress of the…

The Record of Desolation and Despair: Bank

In the last balance sheet of the Bank of Commerce only $231,000 appear as deposits. In times of peace the bank never had in deposit less…

The Record of Desolation and Despair: Lazcano

On the sugar estate Santiago, in the province of Pinar del Rio, Lieut. Lazcano, who was commanding the vanguard of Gen. Arolas, met an old…

The Record of Desolation and Despair: Bermuda

When the Bermuda came into Jacksonville she had about 200 men on board, The others were picked up here and at the bar. One hundred came…

The Record of Desolation and Despair: Ewing

One old American soldier has had enough of the Cuban war, and has been heard from at Poughkeepsie on his way to Buffalo. His name is…

The Record of Desolation and Despair: Casanova

Pedro Casanova, who has recently related his unhappy experience with Spanish troops, is vouched for as an American citizen and a man well…

The Record of Desolation and Despair: Rodriguez

December. 1 Gibara One who smelt as a rebel 1 D 18 Dec. 4 Las Tunas. Three rebels 3 D 31 Dec. 6 Momones. Juan Meneses 1 D 10 Dec. 7 Las…

The Record of Desolation and Despair: James

November. 4 Santiago. GENERALS BERNABE DE VARONA AND W.C. RYAN, COLONELS JESUS DEL SOL AND PEDRO CESPEDES 4 D 7 Nov. 5 Santa Clara. Two…

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