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Spanish West Indies

  • Spanish–American WarIn 1895, Cuban nationalists launched a three-pronged invasion of the island to end Spanish rule. The plan called for one group from Santo Domingo led by…
  • Puerto RicoIn 1493, Christopher Columbus arrived on the island he named San Juan Bautista. The Taíno people had already lived there for centuries before his arrival.
  • CubaCuba is an archipelago of 4,195 islands, cays and islets located in the northern Caribbean Sea at the convergence of the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic…