War Map and History of Cuba: Including the Opening of the American-Spanish War from the Latest Official and Most Authentic Sources (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from War Map and History of Cuba: Including the Opening of the American-Spanish War From the Latest Official and Most Authentic Sources

For tobacco-raisin g, the rich plains in the western prov ince of Cuba, Pinar del Rio, have no rival in the world. This is the region which Maceo, commanding the insurgent Army of Invasion, chose as the principal theater of his Operations in the campaign of 1896, and where, in couse quence, the tobacco crop of that year was nearly all lost. Riding through the fields just at the critical season for cut ting and curing the leaves, his troops enlisted thousands of the laborers and stampeded the rest. The Spaniards, regarding the rebellion and the tobacco interests as largely identical - perhaps not without reason, either - retaliated with ruinous effect wherever their army could penetrate. However, not all the tobacco exported is produced in the western provinces. Ordinarily, large quantities come from the eastern half of the island as well.

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