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Primary Research Sources

THE EVER FAITHFUL ISLE:  A Novel of Old Cuba

Compilation of Colonial Spanish Terms & Document Related Phrases

Ophelia Marquez, Lillian Ramos Navarro Wold

Society of Hispanic & Ancestral Research Press (1998)

Midway City, CA

Race, Labor, & Citizenship in Cuba: A View from the Sugar District of Cienfuegos 1886-1909

Rebecca J. Scott

The Hispanic American Historical Review Vol. 78, No. 4 (Nov., 1998), pp. 687-728

Duke University Press, Durham, NC

The Rise and Fall of the Cuban Sugar Economy

Brian H. Pollitt

Journal of Latin American Studies, Vol. 36, No. 2 (May 2004) pp 319-348

Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England

Marriage, Family, and Ethnicity in the Early Spanish Caribbean

Ida Altman

William & Mary Quarterly (April 2013) pp 225-250

Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture

Williamsburg, VA

La Comida Mambisa: Food, Farming, and Cuban Identity, 1839-1899

Shannon Lee Dawdy

New West Indian Guide, Vol. 76, no. 1/2 (2002) p47-80

Brill Publishers, Leiden, Netherlands

Tainos

Latin American Studies [Web]

https://www.latinamericanstudies.org

https://www.latinamericanstudies.org/tainos.htm

 

Valeriano Weyler, Spain’s Veteran Statesman-Soldier

Pierre Crabitès

Current History, Vol. 31, No. 2 (Nov 1929), pp. 335-340

University of California Press, Berkeley, CA

 

Spain: The ‘Spanish Problem’ and the Imperfect Myth

Martin Blinkhorn

Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 15, No. 1 (,Jan 1980), pp 5-25

Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, CA

The War for Cuban Independence

Jerry A. Sierra

History of Cuba [Web]

historyofcuba.com

Interesting Facts About the Mambi Army

Ed Elizondo

Cuban Genealogy Center (22 May 2012)

http://www.cubagenweb.org

 

An Eternal Tribute to the Cuban "Mambises"

The Cuban History​ [Web] (Nov. 13, 2020)

https://www.thecubanhistory.com

Mambisas: Rebel Women in 19th Century Cuba

Teresa Prados-Torreir

University Press of Florida; First Edition (Sept. 9, 2005)

Gainesville, FL

 

The Spanish Armed Forces of the 19th & Early 20th Centuries

Thomas M. Barker

Armed Forces and Society, Vol. 10, No. 4 (Summer 1984), pp 612-622

Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, CA

The Butcher of Cuba: Weyler in His Ferocious and Frivolous Moods

Amos J. Cummings

Salt Lake City Tribune (Apr. 5, 1898)

Salt Lake City, UT

 

The Force of Food Life on the Atkins Family Sugar Plantation in Cienfuegos, Cuba, 1884-1900

Rebekah E. Pite

Massachusetts Historical Review, no. 5, (2003), pp 58-93.

Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, MA

 

La Política de Reconcentración de Weyler por Miguel Leal Cruz

Paper presented at the III History Conference, University of Havana

Canary Islands Press (2002)

Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain

 

Canary Island Immigration to the Spanish Caribbean

Manuel Hernandez Gonzalez

Oxford Research Encyclopedia, Latin American History

Oxford University Press USA (2016) New York City, NY

Still Smoking - Tobacco and Cigars in Cuba

Anywhere [Web]

https://www.anywhere.com/cuba/travel-guide/tobacco-cigars

 

Prostitution in Havana

In: Selling Sex in the City: A Global History of Prostitution, 1600s-2000s

Amalia L. Cabezas

Brill Publishers (23 Aug 2017) pp: 414–440

Leiden, Netherlands

Excerpt From United States Govt. Document

First Session, 43rd Congress

No. 409. General Sickles to Mr. Fish, Secretary of State

From the United States Delegation in Spain, Madrid, June 12, 1873

https://www.spanamwar.com/index.html

War and Genocide in Cuba, 1895-1898

John Lawrence Tone

The University of North Carolina Press (2006)

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC

 

Our War with Spain for Cuba’s Freedom

Trumbull White

Monarch Book Co. 1898, Chicago, Illinois

Project Gutenberg ebook release (2003)

Salt Lake City, UT

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Cartagena Naval Base

Fandom [Web]

https://www.fandom.com/

https://military-history.fandom.com/wiki/Cartagena_Naval_Base

The Spanish American War

​The Spanish American War Centennial Website 

https://www.spanamwar.com/index.html

Bibliography of Entries

https://www.spanamwar.com/biblio.htm

The Spanish American War

Russell A. Alger

Harper & Brothers Publishers (1901)

New York City, NY

The Guns of the Spanish American War

Schreier, Philip

Military Classics Illustrated

Los Angeles, CA

The Food of the Army During the Spanish War

R.A. Alger

The North American Review, Vol 172, No. 530 (Jan 1901), pp 39-58

University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA

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Spanish Order of Battle in Cuba, 1898

Dr. N.C. Mitiuckov

Izhevsk, Russia

https://www.spanamwar.com/index.html

Remember the Maine?

Thomas B. Allen

National Geographic Magazine, (Feb. 1998) pp. 93-108

National Geographic Partners/Disney Publishing Worldwide

Washington, DC

USS Maine: Mission in Havana

Patrick McSherry

Spanish American War Centennial Website

https://www.spanamwar.com/index.html

 

The USS Maine

Van Loan Nasawald

Military Heritage Magazine (Apr 2003)
Sovereign Media, Reston, VA

Naphtha Launch

ALCHETRON Free Social Encyclopedia for the World

Updated 2024

https://alchetron.com

Spar Torpedo Boats

Reference no. AAA 0007

Torpedo Bay Navy Museum

64 King Edward Parade, Devonport, New Zealand, 0624

https://navymuseum.co.nz/

A Daring Confederate Night Attack on the Union Fleet off Newport News

Mark St. John Erickson

Daily Press (April 4, 2014)

Newport News, VA

https://www.dailypress.com/

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The Spar Torpedo - A Weapon For Heroes and Madmen

Antoine Vanner

Dawlish Chronicles (March 20,2015)

dawlishchronicles,blogspot.com

A Brief History of U.S. Navy Torpedo Development

San Francisco Maritime National Park Association, 2013

hiips://maritime.org

A Brief History of Unmanned Systems

Commander H.R. Everett, USN, Retired 

Mechanix Illustrated/Technica Curiosa

mechanixillustrated.technicacuriosa.com

The Only Naptha Launch

Advertising Brochure

Frank J. Slyker

Gas Engine & Power Company (1883)

Morris Heights, New York, NY

Powered by Boiling Oil

The Museum of Retro Technology

Updated April 2, 2015

http://douglas-self.com/index.htm

Breaking the News: Telegraphy and Yellow Journalism in the Spanish-American War

Craig Carey

American Periodicals, Vol. 26. No. 2

Special Issue: War and Periodicals (2016) pp 130-148

Ohio State University Press, Columbus, OH

Battle of Las Guasimas

The American History Website

https://american-history.net/19th-century-america/19th-century-wars-overview/1986-2/battle-of-las-guasimas-1898/

The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt

Edmund Morris

Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, Inc. (1979)

New York City, NY

Roosevelt's Rough Riders

Virgil Carrington Jones

Doubleday & Company (1971)

Garden City, NY

 

Theodore Roosevelt and the Press

George Juergens

Daedalus, Vol. III, No. 4

Print Culture and Video Culture (Fall 1982) pp 113-133

The Rough Riders (Da Capo Paperback)

Theodore Roosevelt 

Charles Scribner's Sons (1920)

New York City, NY

 

History of Negro Soldiers in the Spanish-American War

Edward A. Johnson

Publisher: Edward A. Johnson (1899)

The Project Gutenberg E-Book edition

Produced by Suzanne Shell, Bradley Norton and PG Distributed Proofreaders

Raleigh, NC

Black Valor, Buffalo Soldiers and the Medal of Honor, 1870-1898

Frank N. Schubert

Scholarly Resources Inc. (1997)

Wilmington, DE

History of the Tenth Cavalry, 1866 - 1921

Edward L. N. Glass, ed.

The Old Army Press (1972)

Ft. Collins, CO

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Origin & Spread of Typhoid Fever in U.S. Military Camps During the Spanish War of 1898

V. 1 Reed, Walter, Victor C. Vaughan and Edward O. Shakespeare,

Government Printing Office (1904)

Washington, D.C.

Manifesting its Destiny: The U.S. Army Signal Corps in the Spanish-American War

Rebecca Raines

Army History, No. 46, Fall 1998- Winter 1999) pp 14-21

https://www.jstor.org/stable/26304991.
 

The Correspondent's War

Charles H. Brown, Charles H. 

Charles Scribner's Sons (1967)

New York City, NY

 

Notes of a War Correspondent

Richard Harding Davis

Charles Scribner's Sons (1910)

New York City, NY

Popular Songs 1895-1939

Wozniak, Steve A.

http://www.swozniak.com/95-39.htm).

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