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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The British and Provincial Conquest of Cuba: Clock

SATURDAY, Oct. 2, 1762.-All the forepart of the day, very hott, and Sultry about 3 o'Clock P.M., the heavens Covered with Blackness, indicated heavy Thunder and rain, the Clouds seem'd to break and scatter and but a Sprinkle of rain-then Collected again, and by some distant heavy Thunder were broken and scattered again-again Collected, and a Soaking heavy rain enSued. last till about Sundown, when it ceased raining, but the Clouds not cleared of about 1/2 before 7 o'Clock the rain came on again-a heavy rain till past Eight when it cleared of, and the Queen of Night in Silver brightness Shone: the heavens calm, and Air Serene and Clear. two heavy Showers in the Night-4 Vessels arrived in the harbour from the american Coasts.

The whole number died out Gen'l. Lymans Regiment Since we Left New York, which then Cosisted of 914-to this day, is 184.

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