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    cuba


    1. This was the case, too, with the mines of Cuba and St


    2. The poor inhabitants of Cuba and St


    3. The conquest of Mexico was the project, not of the council of Spain, but of a governor of Cuba ; and it was effectuated by the spirit of the bold adventurer to whom it was entrusted, in spite of every thing which that governor, who soon repented of having trusted such a person, could do to thwart it


    4. desperation, Maffitt sailed to Cuba and there, he, too, was


    5. In spite of the difficulties, the incredible Maffitt sailed her from Cuba to Mobile Bay, Alabama


    6. steamer Laurel from Liverpool to Havana, Cuba


    7. Justice, and died in Cuba in 2007


    8. The halt laid the foundation of many a subsequent death, beside the loss of a dry week in Cuba


    9. Colonel Roosevelt, after working incessantly to place the navy on a war footing, raised the regiment of cowboys for scouting in Cuba


    10. The soldiers were under the impression that tropical outfits would be issued for them in Cuba

    11. One-third only of the population of Cuba before the war was coloured


    12. In Cuba it was frequently impossible even to discover the regiment of a wounded or dead man, countless mistakes arose, and for weeks families at home endured a terrible suspense, when some loved one, whose body had probably been buried without identity by a fatigue party, was posted as missing


    13. The failure of the artillery in Cuba may be chiefly attributed to the lack of mobilisation manoeuvres in the American army


    14. In Cuba, men absolutely ignorant of military affairs held staff positions, and while they


    15. Poor Danforth had been a great exponent for Cuba Libre; and as we gently lifted his quivering body to shelter, I remembered his former prognostication, “I shall die for Cuba


    16. During the Ashanti and Benin campaigns half-civilised Houssa soldiers in the British service found ice in the hospitals of the West African jungle; but in Cuba, an island adjacent to their own shores, the American army moved without an ice machine or arrangements for manufacture of ice on any of the forty transports


    17. Self-sacrifice was thus rewarded in Cuba


    18. the portion of Cuba east of a line drawn through Aserradero, Dos Palmas, Cauto, Tanamo, and Aguilera; the United States to transport all troops in the command to Spain; officers to retain their side arms; the forces to march from the city with honours of war, laying down their arms at a given point, it being understood that the commissioners would recommend that the Spanish soldier return to Spain with the arms he so bravely defended


    19. Several of the Spaniards were weeping bitter tears of mortification, and though for months I had joyously anticipated the end of their brutal sway in Cuba, now one could but feel pity for Toral and his staff, who at least had fought bravely for their country and had won respect


    20. Despite the exodus of invalids, shipped North on dirty transports supplied with hardtack, canned meat, and foul water, to become an object lesson to the American people of the effect of Cuban climate and official negligence, 4122 soldiers were on the sick list in Cuba on July 24th

    21. As Spain relinquished her sovereignty over Cuba, the Island passed under the military rule of the United States


    22. They left a desolate desert, a monument of ruin, despair, pestilence, and death, to the magnanimous victor morally pledged to stand sponsor to the Free Cuba that is to arise on the blood-soaked ashes of the Island


    23. Shafter’s lack of such insight and tact nearly proved costly in Cuba


    24. A moderate Cuban, for years a resident in America, trusted by all parties and factions, he was the one man likely to aid the United States in the reconstruction of eastern Cuba


    25. The unjust attitude of a section of the American press also caused dangerous irritation in Cuba


    26. Deserving Cubans were placed in all public offices, schools were reopened, and in a few weeks the filthiest, most distracted corner of Cuba was as clean and orderly as an American city


    27. Through the blockade, and during the weary negotiations for peace, when anarchy reigned in Cuba, the residue of the reconcentrados and hundreds of the lower classes in the cities succumbed to privation


    28. When the Evacuation Commissioners had completed their work, and the Army of Occupation was moved to western Cuba, the aspect grew more hopeful


    29. The military government in Cuba has achieved much: but as far as the restoration of Cuba is concerned, it has accomplished little


    30. The army officers have done splendid work, but it has yet to be proved that a military training fits men for the reconstruction of a system of jurisprudence suitable for a Latin society, the administration of the revenue, or dealing with the intricate economic and financial problems and the adjustment of currency, to be faced by the people in Cuba

    31. But if political reconstruction has been slow, the vast improvement in sanitation accomplished by the army will prove of lasting benefit to Cuba


    32. Cuba then became involved on the side of the Liberation Movements and sent tens of thousands of troops to Angola


    33. Not just with the shop - starting a new business as foreigners in Cuba hadn’t been easy - but with the way she’d handled the release of her research to the media, drip feeding it to WikiLeaks a bit at a time


    34. Shortly after they’d settled in Cuba, Sheena explained that she was worried about what Gonzalez’s employers might do with her research should they manage to recover the files from the hard drive he’d stolen from her laptop


    35. Whether the United States should suspend its forty-three (43) year embargo against Cuba and resume normal trade relations with that country‘s communistic regime is one of the overriding questions presently being debated by our nation‘s political leaders


    36. McKinley, in his own words, was uncertain what to do with the new territories under US control, Cuba, Guam, and Puerto Rico as well


    37. Lemay also urged Kennedy to still bomb and invade Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis even after the Soviets withdrew from the island, even though it could lead to nuclear war


    38. That is saying quite a bit, a worse record than Communist Cuba, or Guatemala with its repression of Mayan Indians


    39. FARC is in decline today, in part because President Alvaro Uribe launched a brutal military campaign and in part because Castro of Cuba and Chavez of Venezuela negotiated for FARC to end their uprising and become a political party, as they were before the Colombian government attacked them in the 1960s


    40. Roosevelt invaded repeatedly; Panama in 1903, Honduras three times, in 1903, 1905, and 1907; the Dominican Republic in 1903, staying over a year; Mexico in 1905; Cuba in 1906, staying three years; and Nicaragua in 1907

    41. The first was Argentina in 1890; then Chile in 1891, Haiti the same year; Nicaragua no less than seven times, in 1894, 1898, 1899, 1907, 1909, 1910, and then in 1912, when US troops controlled the country for the next 21 years; Panama in 1895, 1903 (See Section Five), 1912, 1918, and 1925; Honduras six times, in 1903, 1905, 1907, 1911, 1912, and 1924 ; the Dominican Republic in 1903, 1914, and then 1916, when US troops controlled the country until 1924; Mexico in 1905 and 1914; Cuba in 1906, 1912, and 1917, when US troops controlled the country until 1933


    42. Cuba faced perhaps more US assaults than any other nation in the Americas, a US bombing and invasion followed by the threat of nuclear war (Section Eleven again), then likely biological warfare (See Section Five) and extended terrorist attacks from Cuban-Americans for decades (See Section Six)


    43. US intelligence, especially the CIA, carried out some of these attacks, especially on Cuba


    44. This young boy came to the US, escaping Cuba on a boat with his mother


    45. His father back in Cuba wanted the son returned


    46. In Cuba, slavery survived in the Spanish colony much longer


    47. But clearly all the bombings and assassinations had little effect on trade with or recognition of Cuba by other countries


    48. Fillmore even supported a private mercenary army that tried to take Cuba away from Spain to become a US slave state


    49. A US base on Cuban soil (held for over 50 years against the wishes of Cuba) Bush sent the prisoners there for two reasons


    50. While some nationalists made the pretense of being Marxists after the 1950s, there was no evidence of anything but vague ideological ties to Cuba














































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    Synonyms for "cuba"

    cuba republic of cuba

    "cuba" definitions

    a communist state in the Caribbean on the island of Cuba


    the largest island in the West Indies