Although a movement toward Mexican independence had already been in progress since Napoleon's conquest of ... mulberries and grapevines and to manufacture pottery and leather. His actions irritated ...

A Spanish colony since the 15 th century ... recognized the primary reason for the failure of the First War of Independence: the lack of patriotic unity. In 1892, he sought to overcome this ...

Cespedes proclaimed independence ... the rebel leaders and Spanish government signed the Pact of Zanjon which officially ended what became known as the Ten Years' War. Although the Ten Years ...

Unlike the Ten Years' War, the Cuban Independence Movement of the 1890s ... including maps and information about the Spanish officers. Marti (1853-1895), a Cuban émigré who organized the ...

Known as El Grito de Baire, which occurred on February 24, 1895, it marked the beginning of that conflict organized from ...