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... Effects of Maceo's Death - Weyler in the Field Against Gomez - Daring and Death of Bandera - Dissensions in the Camp of Gomez - Weyler's Concentration Policy - A Practical Attempt at Extermination - Senator Proctor's Observations ...
... Effects of Maceo's Death - Weyler in the Field Against Gomez - Daring and Death of Bandera - Dissensions in the Camp of Gomez - Weyler's Concentration Policy - A Practical Attempt at Extermination - Senator Proctor's Observations ...
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... Effect of Cuba's Participation in the War . CHAPTER XX Marti's Epigram on the Revolution - How It has been Fulfilled by the Cuban Republic - The Sense of Responsibility - Progress in Popular Education as a Criterion - Great Gain in ...
... Effect of Cuba's Participation in the War . CHAPTER XX Marti's Epigram on the Revolution - How It has been Fulfilled by the Cuban Republic - The Sense of Responsibility - Progress in Popular Education as a Criterion - Great Gain in ...
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... again undertaken and pressed to a successful conclusion . His orations seemed to have the effect at- tributed to Demosthenes in his Philippics : They made his hearers want to take up arms and fight against 10 THE HISTORY OF CUBA.
... again undertaken and pressed to a successful conclusion . His orations seemed to have the effect at- tributed to Demosthenes in his Philippics : They made his hearers want to take up arms and fight against 10 THE HISTORY OF CUBA.
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... Oriente the Spaniards were on the defensive , while in every other province , even in Pinar del Rio , the revolution was ominously gaining strength . CHAPTER IV Ir now seemed opportune to effect a more 46 THE HISTORY OF CUBA.
... Oriente the Spaniards were on the defensive , while in every other province , even in Pinar del Rio , the revolution was ominously gaining strength . CHAPTER IV Ir now seemed opportune to effect a more 46 THE HISTORY OF CUBA.
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Willis Fletcher Johnson. CHAPTER IV Ir now seemed opportune to effect a more complete organization of the civil government of the Cuban Repub- lic , and for that purpose a convention was held in the Valley of the Yara , at which on July ...
Willis Fletcher Johnson. CHAPTER IV Ir now seemed opportune to effect a more complete organization of the civil government of the Cuban Repub- lic , and for that purpose a convention was held in the Valley of the Yara , at which on July ...
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administration affairs Alfredo Zayas Antonio Maceo appointed approved April Autonomist Bayamo Blanco Blas Villate Cabinet Calixto Garcia Camaguey campaign Campos Captain Captain-General captured cause chief civil command Congress Conservatives Constitution Convention councils courts Cuban army Cuban government Cuban independence Cuban Republic declared election electoral ernment flag of Cuba force Gomez Havana Havana Province insurrection intervention island Jose Juan July Junta justice leaders Leonard Wood Liberal party Lieut March Mario G Marti Maso Matanzas matter Maximo Gomez ment Miguel Gomez Minister Montoro mosquito municipal organization Oriente patriots persons Pinar del Rio Platt Amendment political President Menocal President Palma province provisional revolution revolutionists Santa Clara Santiago Secretary Senate Senor sent served soldiers sovereignty Spain Spaniards Spanish government tain-General tion treaty troops United States government University of Havana Vice-President vote Weyler yellow fever Zayas
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Page 103 - Cuba. In the name of humanity, in the name of civilization, in behalf of endangered American interests which give us the right and the duty to speak and to act, the war in Cuba must stop.
Page 117 - Spain relinquishes all claim of sovereignty over and title to Cuba. And as the island is, upon its evacuation by Spain, to be occupied by the United States, the United States will, so long as such occupation shall last, assume and discharge the obligations that may under international law result from the fact of its occupation, for the protection of life and property.
Page 231 - VII. That to enable the United States to maintain the independence of Cuba, and to protect the people thereof, as well as for its own defense, the government of Cuba will sell or lease to the United States lands necessary for coaling or naval stations at certain specified points to be agreed upon with the President of the United States.
Page 85 - The near future will demonstrate whether the indispensable condition of a righteous peace, just alike to the Cubans and to Spain, as well as equitable to all our interests so intimately involved in the welfare of Cuba, is likely to be attained. If not, the exigency of further and other action by the United States will remain to be taken.
Page 230 - That the Government of Cuba consents that the United States may exercise the right to intervene for the preservation of Cuban independence, the maintenance of a government adequate for the protection of life, property, and individual liberty, and for discharging the obligations with respect to Cuba imposed by the Treaty of Paris on the United States, now to be assumed and undertaken by the Government of Cuba.
Page 180 - It will be your duty, first, to frame and adopt a constitution for Cuba, and when that has been done to formulate what in your opinion ought to be the relations between Cuba and the United States.
Page 78 - When the inability of Spain to deal successfully with the insurrection has become manifest, and it is demonstrated that her sovereignty is extinct in Cuba for all purposes of its rightful existence, and when a hopeless struggle for its re-establishment has degenerated into a strife, which means nothing more than the useless 35' sacrifice of human life and the utter destruction of the very subjectmatter of the conflict, a situation will be presented in which our obligations to the sovereignty of Spain...
Page 104 - That the United States hereby disclaims any disposition or intention to exercise sovereignty, jurisdiction, or control over said island except for the pacification thereof, and asserts its determination, when that is accomplished, to leave the government and control of the island to its people.
Page 103 - President to take measures to secure a full and final termination of hostilities between the government of Spain and the people of Cuba, and to secure in the island the establishment of a stable government capable of maintaining order and observing its international obligations, insuring peace and...
Page 77 - The spectacle of the utter ruin of an adjoining country, by nature one of the most fertile and charming on the globe, would engage the serious attention of the Government and people of the United States in any circumstances.