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Name: Ten Years' War

Type: Event

Start: 1868 AD

End: 1878 AD

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Was revolt against the Spanish domain in Cuba.

Chronology


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  • January 1869: The city of Bayamo was retaken by the Spanish forces led by General Manuel Salcedo after being burned to the ground.
  • October 1868: Cuban rebels captured the city of Bayamo after three days of intense fighting.
  • November 1868: The territory of Camagüey joined the rebellion, further escalating the Cuban revolt in Oriente province.
  • February 1869: In early February 1869, Las Villas, a province in Cuba, joined the Cuban Rebels in their fight for independence from Spanish colonial rule.
  • February 1878: General Arsenio Martínez Campos was a Spanish military officer who arrived in Cuba in 1878 to implement a new policy. The Pact of Zanjón was signed on February 10, 1878, by a negotiating committee, effectively ending the Ten Years' War between Cuban rebels and Spain.
  • January 1876: Gómez began an invasion of Western Cuba in 1875, but the vast majority of slaves and wealthy sugar producers in the region did not join the revolt.
  • May 1878: Except for the resistance of a small group in Oriente led by General Garcia and Antonio Maceo Grajales, who protested in Los Mangos de Baraguá on March 15. The provisional government convinced Maceo to give up, and with his surrender, the war ended on May 28, 1878.

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