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"Cuba's history has a significance out of proportion to its size." - Philip S. Foner...
Explore Cuban history in detail. ... 500 Years of Cuban History
(From Microsoft Encarta 97, "Cuba/History/")
Offers a brief history of Cuba and links to other sources.
Cuba is located ninety miles south of Key West, and lies at the entrance to the Gulf of Mexico between Florida and Central America.
Cuba, the largest of the Caribbean islands, was first inhabited by Indigenous peoples known as the Taíno and Ciboney. On 27 October 1492, Christopher Columbus sighted the island during his first voyage of discovery and claimed it for Spain. Cuba subsequently became a Spanish colony to be ruled by.....
Several documents related to the history of this country provided by the World History Archives.
The native Amerindian population of Cuba began to decline after the European discovery of the island by Christopher COLUMBUS in 1492 and following its development as a Spanish colony during the next ...
History of the U.S. Blockade of Cuba...
Nicolás Morales, a free Negro, leads an uprising that starts in Bayamo and quickly spreads throughout the eastern part of Cuba before it is suppressed by the Spanish army.Philip Foner in A History ...
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