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Title: America's war for humanity, related in story and picture, embracing a complete history of Cuba's struggle for liberty...
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Ingalls, John James, 1833-1900
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Publisher: New York, Thompson
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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ic minority insisted upon immediateaction. No conclusion was reached at this meeting, and another consultationwas held on the 3d of October, at which Francisco Aguilera urged a delay ofsixteen days; and it was finally agreed that the first blow should be struckon the 14th. Carlos Manuel Cespedes was chosen leader of the move-ment, and a complete organization was entered into. Meanwhile, news of theintended uprising had reached the Spanish authorities, and on the 9th ofOctober a letter carrier was arrested at the sugar plantation of Cespedes, uponwhose person was found a written order for the arrest of the conspirators.This incident precipitated immediate action. On the following day Cespedes,at the head of only two hundred badly-armed men, issued a declaration ofindependence on the field of Yara. This place, however, was garrisoned bya Spanish force too strong for the revolutionists, but four days later simul-taneous attacks were made on Las Tunas, Cauto Embarcadero, Jiguani, La ^ * #
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38 AMERICAS WAR FOR HUMANITY. Guisa, El Datie, and Santa Rita, and on the 18th Bayamo was captured byassault. Thus almost at one stroke the revolution was precipitated, and awar inaugurated that was to devastate the island for the succeeding ten years.A Spanish force numbering eight hundred infantry, besides cavalry andartillery, which had been hurriedly despatched to the relief of Bayamo, wasmet by the insurgents and totally defeated. A republican government wasorganized, with Salvador Cisneros Betancourt, Marquis of Santa Lucia, andIgnacio and Eduardo Agramonte at its head. The war continued withvarying successes for the contending parties, and the usual Spanish atroci-ties, until 1878, when the insurgents were induced by specious promises,which were never fulfilled, to lay down their arms. At the commencementof hostilities there were about 20,000 Spanish troops of all arms in the island,and before the close of 1868, 20,000 more were sent from Spain. During thecontinuance of the str

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