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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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os, with 1200 men, surrounded and almost annihilatedfour hundred Spaniards, near Guantanamo, on May 14th. An escort of sixhundred Spaniards accompanying a provision train to Bayamo were dispersedby eight hundred insurgents on May 15th, and their train captured. May19th, near Dos Rios, Jose Marti, with fifty men, was decoyed into a narrowravine by a traitor. Colonel Sandoval, with eight hundred Spaniards, wasled to the spot, and in attempting to cut their way out, Marti and nearly allhis men were killed. Gomez, with seven hundred cavalry, arrived on thescene just as Marti was killed, and he, too, was defeated. Flor Crombet, oneof the chieftains of the ten years war, was killed near Palmeritofive weeksbefore Marti, on April 13th. He commanded three hundred men, part ofMaceos force, and was surrounded by 2500 Spaniards. His loss, like thatof Marti, was due to treachery, though in a different form, as Crombet waskilled by one of his own men, who escaped in the fight, but was caught after-
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46 AMERICAS WAR FOR HUMANITY. ward by Maceo and hanged. The loss of Crombet and Marti was the sever-est blow dealt to the insurgents until the killing of Maceo, on December 4,1896. During the rainy season of 1895 the insurgents pushed their way west-ward, gaining a few victories and meeting with some defeats in PuertoPrincipe, Santa Clara and Matanzas. November 17th Maceo, near the cityof Santa Clara, in the province of that name, with a force of 1900 mendefeated General Navarro, who had 2800 men; and Gomez, on the 19th and20th of that month, with 3000 men vanquished 4000 Spaniards not far fromthe same place. The latter was the heaviest and most important battle of1895, except the one fought on December 23d, in which Campos himself wasdefeated. Pushed steadily backward by the advancing rebels under Gomez,Campos made a stand on that day at Coliseo, in the Province of Matanzas,with a force estimated at 10,000. Gomezs army was said to number 7000.At first the Spaniards were successful, b

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