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: Gen'l

About 5 o'clock waited on Gen'l Lyman at his Room in the Sheperd Battery with Capt. Enos inform'd that a Subaltern's part of the price money now to be divided, was Pounds 126 Sterling. A pleasant moon Shine Evening, about 12 at night a Smart Shower of rain.

WEDNESDAY, Sept. 29, 1762.-Had but little rest, Sleep seem'd entirely to depart from my Eyes, and Slumber from my Eye Leds. Filt not so Current as usual when I arose-afterwards more Comfortable, but felt the want of rest. THURSDAY, Sept. 30, 1762.-The Commanding officers of every Core, dined with his Lordship, who informed that we should Sail in a few days and also that in one Spanish Ship Sunk in the harbour, had in her 260,000 dollors-nothing but the distresses of Sick and dying to be heard in Camp. This Evening about 10 o'Clock Dr. Hubbard died.

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