Cuba, Old and NewLongmans, Green, and Company, 1915 - 264 pages |
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... result was a reasonable argument that China and India could be reached from the other direction , that is , by going westward instead of eastward . In the early autumn of the year 1492 , Columbus was busy discovering islands in the ...
... result was a reasonable argument that China and India could be reached from the other direction , that is , by going westward instead of eastward . In the early autumn of the year 1492 , Columbus was busy discovering islands in the ...
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... result was the discovery of Yucatan . Cordoba returned to die of wounds re- ceived in a battle . A second and stronger expedition was immediately despatched . This rounded the peninsula and followed the coast as far as the present city ...
... result was the discovery of Yucatan . Cordoba returned to die of wounds re- ceived in a battle . A second and stronger expedition was immediately despatched . This rounded the peninsula and followed the coast as far as the present city ...
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... results . No gold was found . Of the inhabitants of Cuba , as found by the Spaniards , comparatively little is recorded . They seem to have been a somewhat negative people , generally described as docile , gentle , generous , and ...
... results . No gold was found . Of the inhabitants of Cuba , as found by the Spaniards , comparatively little is recorded . They seem to have been a somewhat negative people , generally described as docile , gentle , generous , and ...
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... result , the proportion of free colored to slaves has always been large . " Humboldt , who studied the institution ... results of the Ten Years ' War , definitely abolished the system . Traces of it remained , however , until about 1887 ...
... result , the proportion of free colored to slaves has always been large . " Humboldt , who studied the institution ... results of the Ten Years ' War , definitely abolished the system . Traces of it remained , however , until about 1887 ...
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... result of the Haitian disorder was the arrival , in eastern Cuba , of a large number of exiles and emigrants who established extensive coffee plantations . During the first hundred and fifty years of Cuba's history , the principal ...
... result of the Haitian disorder was the arrival , in eastern Cuba , of a large number of exiles and emigrants who established extensive coffee plantations . During the first hundred and fifty years of Cuba's history , the principal ...
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activities American appears army Baracoa beautiful became called Camaguey cane Cape Maisi cargo Century charm cigar coast coffee colonies Columbus commercial Constitution Cuba's Cuban declared eastward enterprise expedition experience exports filibustering Guanajay harbor Hatuey Havana Province hills hundred immediately important independence industry interest island of Cuba Isle of Pines known land later laws less Liberal Maceo Marianao Marti Martinez Campos Matanzas Matanzas Province Maximo Gomez ment Mexico miles military Morro Nipe Bay notable Nuevitas O'Brien official old city operation organization Palma party Pinar del Rio plant plantations Platt Amendment political port Porto Rico Prado present President production railway reached regarded region Republic revolution River sailed Santa Clara Santiago ship shore Spain Spaniards Spanish authorities steamer story streets sugar Tacon tion tobacco tons trade treaty United Vedado vessels vicinity Vuelta Abajo Weyler
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Page 129 - With the movements in this hemisphere we are of necessity more immediately connected, and by causes which must be obvious to all enlightened and impartial observers.
Page 133 - After we shall have offered Spain a price for Cuba far beyond its present value, and this shall have been refused, it will then be time to consider the question — Does Cuba, in the possession of Spain, seriously endanger our internal peace and the existence of our cherished Union ? Should this question In.
Page 127 - These islands, from their local position are natural appendages to the North American continent, and one of them (Cuba) almost in sight of our shores, from a multitude of considerations has become an object of transcendent importance to the commercial and political interests of our Union.
Page 178 - As I said in my message of last December, it was not civilized warfare; it was extermination. The only peace it could beget was that of the wilderness and the grave.
Page 158 - While conscious that the insurrection in Cuba has shown a strength and endurance which make it at least doubtful whether it be in the power of Spain to subdue it, it seems unquestionable that no such civil organization exists which may be recognized as an independent government capable of performing its international obligations and entitled to be treated as one of the powers of the earth.
Page 149 - I call upon every officer of this government, civil or military, to use all efforts in his power to arrest, for trial and punishment, every such offender against the laws providing for the performance of our sacred obligations to friendly powers.
Page 119 - Is taxable under section 4262 (a) (2) as transportation from one port in the United States to another port In the United States. (c) Northern portion of the Western Hemisphere.
Page 242 - 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 7 - ... of various forms, the highest and most beautiful that I have met with, and an infinity of other great and green trees ; the birds in rich plumage, and the verdure of the fields, render this country, most serene princes, of such marvellous beauty, that it surpasses all others in charms and graces, as the day doth the night in lustre.
Page 219 - They beheld several of the natives going about with firebrands in their hands, and certain dried herbs which they rolled up in a leaf, and lighting one end, put the other in their mouths, and continued exhaling aud puffing out the smoke. A roll of this kind they called a tobacco, a name since transferred to the plant of which the rolls were made.