Cuba obtained independence from Spain in the aftermath of the Spanish American War which came to an end in December of 1898. Cuba obtained independence from Spain in the aftermath of the Spanish ...

Unlike the Ten Years' War, the Cuban Independence Movement of the 1890s ... of the revolution and remains a hero to the Cuban people. Spain responded to the Cuban insurgency by sending 100,000 ...

By 1898, after three years of relentless fighting, Spain was on the brink of surrender, and the Cuban revolutionaries were ...

who fought for Cuban independence from Spain. Raul Castro placed a wooden box containing the ashes into a niche in the polished granite rock, before it was sealed by a large plaque engraved with ...

Cuba had suffered what simply could be called bad government. A bloody and costly struggle to achieve independence from Spain had devastated Cuba's economy. The insurgent leaders, known as the ...