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“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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Statistical and Documentary: Total

Maj.-Gen. Serafin Sanchez (white) 2,000 Col. Roban (white) 600 Col. Rego (white) 1,200 Col. Cortena (white) 300 Col. Felipe Toledo (white) 200 Col. Lino Perez (white) 300 Lieut.-Col. Leon Cio Vedal (white) 200 Lieut.-Col. Sixto Roque (white) 200 Total 5,000 Province of Matanzas.

Maj.-Gen. Francisco Carillo (white) 3,000 Brig.-Gen. Lacret(white) 1,500 Gen. Pancho Perez (white) 1,500 Col. Clotilde Garcia (black) 400 Col. Joseph Roque (white) 800 Col. Oulet (white) 200 Col. Morijon (mulatto) 200 Col. Demas Martinez (black) 300 Col. (Alfred Godoy) "El Inglesito" (white) 500 Col. Edward Garcia (white) 400 Total 8,800 Habana Province.

Maj.-Gen. Jose Maria Aguirre (white) 2,000 Gen. Rafael de Cardenas (white) 2,500 Col. Juan Masso Parra (white) 1,500 Col. Castillo (white) 1,200 Col. Aranguerena (white) 300 Maj. Villanueva (black) 200 Col. Diaz Hernandez (white) 200 Lieut.-Col.Corbo (white) 60 Lieut.-Col. Palacios (black) 200 Total 8,160 Pinar del Rio Province.

Maj.-Gen. Dioniosio Gil (white) 1,000 Gen. Perico Diaz (black) 800 Col. Perico Delgado (white) 600 Col. Rafael Socorro (white) 200 Col. Frederico Alphonso (white) (recruits) 62 Col. Olivia (white) 300 Col. Miguel Laso (white) 800 Col. Estaban Varona (white) 1,500 Maj. Castillo (black) 800 Total 5,562 ARMIES OF INVASION.

General-in-chief Maximo Gomez (white) 5,000 Lieut.-Gen. Antonio Maceo (mulatto) 5,000 Brig.-Gen. Quinton Bandera (black) 2,500 Brig. Gen. Jose Miro (Spaniard, white) 1,000 Brig.-Gen. Bruno Zayas (white) 1,000 Gen. Estabo Tamayo (white) 600 Col. Nunez (white) 600 Col. Cayito Alvarez (white) 400 Col. Roberto Bermudez (white) 600 Total army invasion 16,700 Total army occupation 44,022 Total of all forces in arms 60,722 This is a table of officers commanding operating columns. Each of their separate columns is regularly officered, as in the United States army, the tables sowing color and rank:

Officers. No. Color White. Black. Mulatto. Indian Generals 24 19 3 1 1 Colonels 34 27 5 2 Lieutenant-Colonels 4 3 1 Majors 2 1 1 Total 64 50 10 3 1 In ranks bearing arms, 40 per cent. black and 60 per cent. white. So simple a matter as an official table showing the commerce of Spain with her colonies, is instructive:

COMMERCE OF SPAIN WITH HER COLONIES.

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