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Series
Title
Cuban Independence Wars
Date(s)
- 1878-1911 (bulk dates 1896-1898) (Creation)
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The Cuban Independence Wars series consists of autographed letters from prominent Cuban figures of the Independence Wars of 1868-1878 and 1895-1898 and a copy of the "Pacto de Zanjón" (Zanjon Treaty), 1878. Some of the most important letters included in this series are eight signed letters from Major General Antonio Maceo to Brigadier José María Aguirre, Chief of the Division of Havana during the Cuban Invasion from "Oriente to "Occidente' in 1896; a signed letter by Tomás Estrada Palma, the first president of the Republic of Cuba; an autographed personal letter dated 1904 from Generalísimo Máximo Gómez, General Commander in Chief of the Cuban Liberation Army; and a letter signed by Carlos J. Finlay, the doctor who discovered that mosquitoes transmit yellow fever.