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 Spanish War Policy

7 pages in this part of The Story of Cuba.

The Spanish War Policy

The Way the Present War Opened and how it Progressed-Personal Characteristics of Prominent Figures-Campos, Weyler, Gomez the Maceos and…

The Spanish War Policy: Weyler

The likeness of General Weyler is given in full uniform with all his decorations. When he landed in Cuba, the cannon sounding, the flags…

The Spanish War Policy: Masso

Before us is a letter, dated Manzanillo, March 12, 1895, from Herminio C. Leyva to Bartolome Masso, showing no less clearly than the…

The Spanish War Policy: Gomez

Julio Sanguily is a prisoner in La Cabana, Juan Gualberto Gomez surrendered, Yero is in San Domingo, Guillermon is ill with hemorrhage and…

The Spanish War Policy: Maceos

The Spaniards make much of the conspicuity of the Maceos, in the efforts to persuade people that the insurrection is an affair of black men…

The Spanish War Policy: Cuba

The greatest surprise in the course of the war in Cuba is that the scene of it should have been shifted from the east end, which has long…

The Spanish War Policy: Havana

The western department has remained untouched throughout the struggle. Havana has little reason to distress itself about the Cuban…

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