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.

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Introduction

INTRODUCTION FIRST EVENTS AND EARLY INFLUENCES.

First Events and Early Influences

5 pages

Europe and America and the Indies

8 pages

Origin and Conduct of Cuban Wars

10 pages

Spanish Story of the Treaty of Zanjon

11 pages

The Spanish War Policy

7 pages

Characteristics of the Present Cuban War

3 pages

Leading Questions of Races and Crimes

5 pages

The Orders and Administration of Weyler

7 pages

The Forces Now Engaged in Cuba

2 pages

The Cuban Government

4 pages

The Play of President Pierce for Cuba

9 pages

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Highlights

Leading Questions of Races and Crimes

The Blacks as Soldiers and in Caricatures--Preoccupation on Both Sides in Cuba with the United States--Habits of…

Points of Pictures

Sugar Plantation--Tobacco Fields--Royal Palms--Cocoanut Palms--Cuban Vegetation--Moro Castle Cell--Valley of the…

The Second Year of the Second War

The condition of the Country Approaching the Second Rainy Season of the Struggle--Why the War-Cry went forth in February--The…

Statistical and Documentary

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

The British and Provincial Conquest of Cuba

How the Island was Invaded, and Havana Captured, After a Bloody and Deadly Siege, in the Summer of 1762, by the British, Under…

Horrors of Moro Castle

A Newspaper Correspondent Arbitrarily Arrested--A Night and Two Days in an Ugly Dungeon--Neglect of Prisoners--A Case of Mistaken…

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