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The Cuban War of Independence (Spanish: Guerra de Independencia cubana), also known in Cuba as the Necessary War (Spanish: Guerra Necesaria), [5] fought from 1895 to 1898, was the last of three liberation wars that Cuba fought against Spain, the other two being the Ten Years' War (1868–1878) [6] and the Little War (1879–1880).
This was the first of three liberation wars that Cuba fought against Spain, the other two being the Little War (1879–1880) and the Cuban War of Independence (1895–1898). The final three months of the last conflict escalated with United States involvement, leading to the Spanish–American War. [10] [11]
Ten Years' War (1868–1878) Cuban Liberation Army Spain: Defeat. Pact of Zanjón; Little War (1879–1880) Cuban Liberation Army Spain: Defeat. Rebel defeat; Cuban War of Independence (1895–1898) Cuban Liberation Army United States Spain: Victory. Cuban independence from Spain; Cuban Pacification (1906) Conservatives: Liberals: Liberal victory
The Cuban War of Independence begins, under the leadership of José Martí and General Máximo Gómez. 19 May: José Martí is killed by Spanish troops at the Battle of Dos Ríos. September: Spanish Captain-General Arsenio Martínez Campos is defeated at Peralejo and leaves Cuba in January 1896. 1896
Cuban rebels fought alongside American troops throughout the war on the Cuban island. The war lasted for 10 weeks. From 22–24 June, the U.S. V Corps under General William R. Shafter landed at Daiquirí and Siboney, east of Santiago, and established an American base of operations. A contingent of Spanish troops, having fought a skirmish with ...
The reconcentration policy was a plan implemented by Spanish military officer Valeriano Weyler during the Cuban War of Independence to relocate Cuba's rural population into concentration camps. It was originally developed by Weyler's predecessor, Arsenio Martínez Campos , as a method of separating Cuban rebels from the rural populace which ...
1868 October 10 Carlos Manuel de Céspedes and his followers begin the Ten Years War, first war of Cuban independence. According to the Cuban revolutionary ideologists, 1868 is the true beginning of the Cuban Revolution. 1869 April Guáimaro Assembly. Proclamation of the first independent Constitution of Cuba.
The Second Eastern Campaign was a military campaign that took place between August 1 to 12, 1898, in the Oriente Province of Cuba during the Cuban War of Independence.It was the shortest military campaign of the entire war and it was the one that marked the end of Spanish reign in Cuba and the Spanish Empire in Latin America.