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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 military history of Cuba is an aspect of the history of Cuba that spans several hundred years and encompasses the armed actions of Spanish Cuba while it was part of the Spanish Empire and the succeeding Cuban republics. From the 16th to 18th centuries, organized militia companies made up the bulk of Cuba's armed forces.
The name was derived from then Cuban President Fidel Castro by spelling his surname backwards.. During the Cuban Missile Crisis, upon discovery of SS-4 missiles being assembled in Cuba, the U.S. Government considered several options including a blockade (an act of war under international law, so it was called a "quarantine"), an airstrike, or a military strike against the Cuban missile positions.
Invasion of the Dominican Republic [3] (1959) Cuba Dominican Republic: Defeat. Expedition fails; Bay of Pigs Invasion (1961) Cuba: Brigade 2506 United States Cuban DRF: Victory. The invasion was defeated; Invasion of Venezuela [4] (1963) Cuba Venezuela: Defeat. Expedition fails; Sand War (1963–1964) [5] Algeria Cuba Morocco: Stalemate
In subsequent years American forces regularly invaded and intervened in Cuba, with the U.S. military occupying Cuba again from 1906–1909, and U.S. marines being sent to Cuba from 1917–1922 to protect American-owned sugar plantations.
War in the context of this list is broadly construed to be a direct armed conflict between organized U.S. military forces and organized forces of (a) belligerent(s). (Note: Ongoing wars are indicated in bold and with red bars.)
Most of the United States armed forces left Cuba by August 1919, but two companies remained at Camaguey until February 1922. 1918–1919: Mexico: After withdrawal of the Pershing expedition, U.S. troops entered Mexico in pursuit of bandits at least three times in 1918 and six times in 1919.
The primary objective of the American Fifth Army Corps' invasion of Cuba was the capture of the city of Santiago de Cuba.U.S. forces had driven back the Spaniards' first line of defense at the Battle of Las Guasimas, after which General Arsenio Linares pulled his troops back to the main line of defense against Santiago along San Juan Heights.