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قراءة كتاب Cuba: Its Past, Present, and Future
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CUBA
ITS PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE
BY
A. D. HALL
NEW YORK STREET & SMITH, Publishers
81 Fulton Street
Copyrighted
1898
By Street & Smith.
CONTENTS.
| CHAPTER | PAGE. | |
| I. | —Discovery and Early History | 7 |
| II. | —The British Occupation—Spain's Gratitude | 19 |
| III. | —Cuba's Early Struggles for Liberty | 30 |
| IV. | —The Ten Years' War | 43 |
| V. | —The Virginius Embroglio | 59 |
| VI. | —Again Spain's Perfidy | 67 |
| VII. | —Some Cuban Heroes | 73 |
| VIII. | —Cuban Tactics | 84 |
| IX. | —Weyler the Butcher | 92 |
| X. | —The Crime of the Century | 102 |
| XI. | —Two Methods of Warfare; The Spanish and the Cuban | 110 |
| XII. | —The Butcher's Campaign | 122 |
| XIII. | —America's Charity and Spain's Diplomacy | 132 |
| XIV. | —The Last Days of Peace | 144 |
| XV. | —The Topography and Resources of Cuba | 154 |
| XVI. | —What Will the Future Be? | 170 |
CUBA
ITS PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE
CHAPTER I.
DISCOVERY AND EARLY HISTORY.
"The goodliest land that eye ever saw, the sweetest thing in the world."
Such was Columbus' opinion of Cuba, just after he first beheld it, and, after the lapse of four hundred years, the words, making due allowance for the hyperbole of enthusiasm, still hold good. And this, too, in spite of all the trials and tribulations which the fair "Pearl of the Antilles" has been forced to undergo at the hands of her greedy and inhuman masters.
The eyes of all the world are now upon this indescribably beautiful and fertile country. Like