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The Ten Years' War (Spanish: Guerra de los Diez Años; 1868–1878), also known as the Great War (Guerra Grande) and the War of '68, was part of Cuba's fight for independence from Spain. The uprising was led by Cuban-born planters and other wealthy natives.
The Pact of Zanjón ended the Ten Years' War, the armed struggle of Cubans for independence from the Spanish Empire that lasted from 1868 to 1878. On February 10, 1878, a group of negotiators representing the rebels gathered in Zanjón, a village in Camagüey Province, and signed the document offered them by the Spanish commander in Cuba, General Arsenio Martínez Campos, who had arrived in ...
The signaling of the Yara uprising occurred near Manzanillo in the eastern province of Oriente, at the sugar plantation and mill of La Demajagua. On October 10, 1868, the revolutionary proclamation of Cuba's independence known as the Cry of Yara (Spanish: El Grito de Yara) was issued by Cuban revolutionary and plantation owner Carlos Manuel de Céspedes.
Thirty Years' War: 4–12 million [18] 1618–1648 Anti-Imperial Alliance vs. Imperial Alliance Europe Spanish conquest of Mexico: 10.5 million [19] 1519–1530 Spanish Empire and allies vs. Aztec Empire and allies Mexico Russian Civil War: 7–10 million [20] 1917–1922
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).
The filibustering Lopez Expedition was defeated by Spanish authorities. 1853: 28 January: José Martí is born in Havana. 1862 4 February The Bacardi company is founded in Santiago de Cuba by Facundo Bacardí Massó. 1868: The first war of Cuban independence, also known as the Ten Years' War, begins. It lasts until 1878. 10 October
By that year, the Spanish government had deployed more than 250,000 troops to Cuba, as the end of the Third Carlist War had freed up Spanish soldiers. On 10 February 1878, General Arsenio Martínez Campos negotiated the Pact of Zanjón with the Cuban rebels, and the rebel general Antonio Maceo 's surrender on 28 May ended the war.
Start of Castillian-Leonese War, Castillian-Navarrese War and Castillian-Aragonese war. Henry II of England campaign on Toulouse [9] (1159) Part of Capetian–Plantagenet rivalry; Location: Southern France. Kingdom of England House of Aragon [10] County of Barcelona; Lordship of Montpellier. Royal Domain of France County of Toulouse. Truce