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Spain.
    1868-78. Cuba engages in its Ten Years’ War for independence from Spain.
    1878-80. Cuba fights its Little War for independence from Spain.
    1880-86. Gradual abolition of slavery occurs throughout Cuba.

    CUBA’S FINAL WAR FOR INDEPENDENCE FROM SPAIN
    1895. Rebellion in eastern Cuba begins. Poet José Martí is killed in his first battle.
    1896. War spreads. Captain-General Weyler announces the reconcentration camp order.
    1897. The Constitutional Assembly convenes.
    1898. U.S.battleship Maine explodes in Havana Harbor. The United States makes its final offer to buy Cuba. U.S.military intervenes and Spanish troops surrender to U.S.troops. Cuban generals are not permitted to attend the ceremonies.

    POSTWAR EVENTS
    1899. Spain cedes rule of Cuba to the United States.
    1902. The United States grants autonomy to Cuba, on the condition that U.S.troops retain the right to intervene in Cuban affairs and that Cuba allows a portion of the eastern province of Guantánamo to become a U.S.Navy base.

 
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    Selected References

    ALLEN, DOUGLAS.
Frederic Remington and the Spanish-American War.
New York:Crown, 1971.
    BARBOUR, THOMAS.
A Naturalist in Cuba.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1946.
    CORZO, GABINO DE LA ROSA.
Runaway Slave Settlements in Cuba.
Chapel Hill:University of North Carolina Press, 2003.
    GARCÍA, FAUSTINO.
La Mujer Cubana en la Revolución.
La Habana:Bohemia, February 24, 1950.
    GARCÍA, LUIS NAVARRO.
La Independencia de Cuba.
Madrid:Editorial MAPFRE, 1992.
    GOLDSTEIN, DONALD M., AND KATHERINE V. DILLON.
The Spanish-American War—The Story and Photographs.
Washington, D.C.,and London: Brassey’s, 2000.
    GÓMEZ, MÁXIMO.
Diario de Campaña del Mayor General Máximo Gómez.
La Habana:Comisión del Archivo de Máximo Gómez; Talleres del Centro Superior Tecnológico Ceiba del Agua, 1940.
    MARTÍ, JOSÉ.
Poesía Completa.
La Habana:Editorial Letras Cubanas, 1993.
    PRADOS-TERREIRA, TERESA. Mambisas:
Rebel Women in Nineteenth-Century Cuba.
Gainesville:University Press of Florida, 2005.
    ROIG, JUAN TOMÁS.
Plantas Medicinales, Aromáticas o Venenosas de Cuba.
La Habana:Editorial Científico-Técnica, 1988.
    ROOSEVELT, THEODORE.
The Rough Riders.
New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1899.
    TONE, JOHN LAWRENCE.
War and Genocide in Cuba—
1895
–1898. Chapel Hill:The University of North Carolina Press, 2006.
    VILLAVERDE, CIRILO.
Diario del Rancheador.
La Habana:Editorial Letras Cubanas, 1982.

 
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    Acknowledgments

    I am deeply grateful to God and my family for the time and peace of mind to write.
    For help with research, I am thankful to all the hardworking, anonymous interlibrary loan specialists from numerous libraries, including the Hispanic Reference Team at the Library of Congress.
    A heartfelt thanks to my editor, Reka Simonsen, and to everyone else at Henry Holt and Company, especially Robin Tordini, Timothy Jones, my copy editor Marlene Tungseth and designer Lilian Rosenstreich.
    For encouragement, I am grateful to Angelica Carpenter and Denise Sciandra at the Arne Nixon Center for Children’s Literature, California State University, Fresno, and to Alma Flor Ada, Nancy Osa, Teresa Dovalpage, Juan Felipe Herrera, Anilú Bernardo, Cindy Wathen, Esmeralda Santiago, Midori Snyder, and Ellen Olinger.