Spanish colonial period of Cuba

overseas expansion under the Crown of Castile

armed conflict between the United States, Cuba and Spain

Cuban revolutionary hero, plantation, poet, musician; 1st (wartime) President of Cuba (1816-1874)

Spanish conquistador (1490-1527)

armed conflict in Cuba between 1868 and 1878

Spanish colonial administrator (1746-1786)

1492–1504 voyages to the Americas; beginning of the Columbian exchange

armed conflict in Cuba between 1878 and 1880

Spanish 1607–1898 possession in the Caribbean

Spanish colonial building in Havana, Cuba

Spanish explorer

single ship action between the German gunboat Meteor and the French aviso Bouvet off the coast of Havana, Cuba during the Franco-Prussian War

organization

thumb|Depiction of Cuban insurgents in the tropical forest (manigua), ca. 1879-1880 The mambises were the guerrilla independence soldiers who fought for the independence from Spain of the Dominican Republic in the Dominican Restoration War (1863–1865), and of Cuba in the Ten Years' War (1868–1878), Little War (1879–1880), and Cuban War of Independence (1895–1898).

first court of the Spanish crown in America

Afro-Cuban revolutionary leader in the Cuban War of Independence (1854-1933)

1511–1607 Spanish colony on Cuba

portion of the Atlantic Slave Trade

proposed state by Ramón Emeterio Betances

1895 battle

1741 English invasion during the War of Jenkins' Ear

instigating event of the Ten Years' War

Conditions on U.S. military presence in Cuba

1895 battle

Cuban military personnel

official document of the Revolutionary Party in Cuba

town-hall style meeting in Latin America

1815 Real Cédula approved by the Spanish Crown