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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Outline History of Cuba from May, 1896, to January, 1897: Maceo

The party had ridden only a few hundred yards, when Zertucha suddenly bent low in his saddle and swerved sharply to one side, galloping away like mad. Almost at the same moment a volley was fired by a party of Spanish soldiers hidden in the dense underbrush, and Maceo and four of his aides dropped out of their saddles mortally wounded.

The single survivor--the writer quoted here--managed to make his way back to his own men and brought them up to the spot of the tragedy. The five dead bodies of Maceo and Gomez and the three other aides still lay on the ground. The Spaniards had disappeared.

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