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Title: America's war for humanity related in story and picture, embracing a complete history of Cuba's struggle for liberty, and the glorious heroism of America's soldiers and sailors
Year: 1898 (1890s)
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Subjects: Spanish-American War, 1898
Publisher: New York, St. Louis, N.D. Thompson Publishing Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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th. Campos had established two trochas, both running north and south,but neither appeared so formidable as Weylers, or was relied on, both inMadrid and Havana, to accomplish so much. One coincided closely with theboundary between the Provinces of Santiago and Puerto Principe, and theother was close to the line separating Puerto Principe from Santa Clara. Thefirst was intended to isolate the rebels and confine them to Santiago, Cubaseasternmost province. The second was designed to keep the rebels, who hadcrossed from Santiago into Puerto Principe, from getting into Santa ClaraProvince. Neither barrier was effective. Weylers trocha was in the west-ern end of the island, and extended from Majana to Mariel, near the dividingline between the Provinces of Havana and Pinar del Rio. This trocha,which was established in the latter part of March, 1896, was for thepurpose of preventing a junction between Maceo and Gomez, Maceobeing in Pinar del Rio at the time, and Gomez and the main body of the
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50 AMERICAS WAR FOR HUMANITY. insurgents being in the provinces east of that line. Between Majana andMariel the island is at its narrowest, or less than thirty miles wide. Block-houses, small forts and earthworks were erected at the intersection of roads,barbed-wire, in lines eight or ten feet high, was stretched across the fields,and at important strategic points were trenches and batteries of artillery, with1000 or 1500 men, all the posts being in communication with each other.About 40,000 men were stationed along the trocha, and 10,000 more troops,divided into bodies of from 1000 to 2500, principally cavalry, scoured theProvince of Piuar del Rio in search of Maceo. Weylers trocha, however, was not much of an obstruction. Bands ofMaceos men crossed it backward and forward several times, and some ofGomezs immediate command did this more than once. Maceo, on April 11,1896, with 3000 men, crushed one of Weylers columns which was in searchof him. So many Spaniards were tied up defending

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