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Puerto Rico was released as a 3-5 player game but later received an official two-player variant from Alea. The two-player game is played with one Prospector, and in each round both players select three roles, before a doubloon is added to the seventh role and the Governor tile switches sides.
The Intentona de Yauco (Attempted Coup of Yauco) of March 24–26, 1897 was the second and final short-lived revolt against Spanish rule in Puerto Rico. It was staged by the pro-independence Revolutionary Committee of Puerto Rico in the southwestern municipality of Yauco , 29 years after the first unsuccessful revolt, known as the Grito de ...
Economic History of Puerto Rico. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-02248-2. Fernández, Ronald (1996). The Disenchanted Island: Puerto Rico and the United States in the Twentieth Century (2nd ed.). Praeger Paperback. ISBN 978-0-275-95227-3. Jiménez de Wagenheim, Olga; Wagenheim, Kal (2002). The Puerto Ricans: A Documentary History ...
To get a sense of how unglamorous it was, here are 11 historical photos of treasure seekers who gave it their all in pursuit of gold. 1. Coeur d’Alene, Idaho (1885)
McKinley is best known for conducting the successful Spanish–American War (1898), separating Cuba from Spain; taking ownership of the Republic of Hawaii; and purchasing the Philippines, Guam and Puerto Rico. It includes the 1897 Dingley Tariff which raised rates to protect manufacturers and factory workers from foreign competition, and the ...
Spanish settlement of Puerto Rico began in the early 1500s shortly after the formation of the Spanish state in 1493 (continuing until 1898 as a colony of Spain) and continues to the present day. The most significant Spanish immigration wave occurred during the colonial period, continuing with smaller numbers arriving during the 20th century to ...
Juan Serrallés Colón, born in Ponce, Puerto Rico, was the son of Sebastian Serrallés, a wealthy Spaniard from Catalonia who settled in Ponce in the early 19th century and went into the sugarcane business, and Juana Colon.
The Christopher Columbus statue was first erected in the area in 1893 to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the European "discovery" of Puerto Rico. [2] The statue of Juan Ponce de Leon that used to be located in the center of the square was moved to Plaza San Jose (next to San Jose Church). Before its construction in 1897, the plaza used to be ...