Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Bay of Pigs Invasion (Spanish: Invasión de Bahía de Cochinos, sometimes called Invasión de Playa Girón or Batalla de Playa Girón after the Playa Girón) was a failed military landing operation on the southwestern coast of Cuba in April 1961 by the United States of America and the Cuban Democratic Revolutionary Front (DRF), consisting ...
The Bay of Pigs (Spanish: Bahía de los Cochinos) is an inlet of the Gulf of Cazones, located on the southern coast of Cuba.By 1910 it was included in Santa Clara Province, and then to Las Villas Province by 1961, but in 1976, it was reassigned to Matanzas Province, when the original six provinces of Cuba were re-organized into 14 new Provinces of Cuba.
In April 1961, Playa Girón was one of two landing sites for seaborne forces of about 1,500 armed Cuban exiles in the Bay of Pigs Invasion, an American CIA-sponsored attempt [2] to overthrow the new government of Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro. Over 72 hours, fighting took place in many parts of the Cienaga de Zapata, Playa Girón being the ...
North American container ports. This is a list of ports of the United States, ranked by tonnage. [1] Ports in the United States handle a wide variety of goods that are critical to the global economy, including petroleum, grain, steel, automobiles, and containerized goods.
This is a list of busiest cruise ports by passengers. ... Port of Palm Beach, Florida: 480,000 [6] United States: 66: Port of Cadiz Bay:
Bay of Pigs Museum, TimeOut Miami 25°45′54″N 80°13′30″W / 25.764989°N 80.225059°W / 25.764989; -80. This Florida museum–related article is a stub .
After the plot was thwarted by US federal agents in New Orleans, Louisiana, the news media dubbed it "Bayou of Pigs", after the failed 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion in Cuba. [ 1 ] The leader Mike Perdue and six other men pleaded guilty to violation of the Neutrality Act ; two others were found guilty by a jury. [ 2 ]
The Bay of Pigs Monument is a monument in honor of the fallen of the Bay of Pigs Invasion in Little Havana, Miami, Florida. Their names are engraved on the monument, and there is an eternal flame at the top. [ 1 ]