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The Battle of Santiago de Cuba was a decisive naval engagement that occurred on July 3, 1898 between an American fleet, led by William T. Sampson and Winfield Scott Schley, against a Spanish fleet led by Pascual Cervera y Topete, which occurred during the Spanish–American War.
American military radio has been in operation in Cuba since 1940. [2] The first AFN radio station in Cuba, the precursor to Radio GTMO, was WGBY in 1947, broadcasting from a different location. Radio GTMO moved to its current building in 1964. [4] The mission of the radio station is to entertain and inform the Americans who are stationed at the ...
The wreck of Cristóbal Colón on 3 July 1898, beached and capsized on the south coast of Cuba. Cristóbal Colón was a Giuseppe Garibaldi-class armored cruiser of the Spanish Navy that fought at the Battle of Santiago de Cuba during the Spanish–American War.
The ship was commissioned as USS Merrimac under the command of Cmdr JW Miller, fitted out at Norfolk Naval Shipyard as a naval collier. She joined the squadron of Commodore WS Schley off Cienfuegos , Cuba, on 20 May, and accompanied the squadron along the coast until it arrived off Santiago de Cuba on 26 May, where she bunkered several US warships.
The Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces (Spanish: Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias; FAR) are the military forces of Cuba.They include Revolutionary Army, Revolutionary Navy, Revolutionary Air and Air Defense Force, and other paramilitary bodies including the Territorial Troops Militia (Milicias de Tropas Territoriales – MTT), Youth Labor Army (Ejército Juvenil del Trabajo – EJT), and the ...
Cuba had been in rebellion against Spain since 1895. Soon after the rebellion began, two insurgent leaders – José Martí and General Máximo Gómez – had landed at the beach of Cajobabo, between Guantánamo Bay and Cape Maisí, but after three years of fighting throughout the island, the rebels had only been successful in two provinces – Oriente and Camagüey.
The Spanish were using undersea cables as a means to communicate with not only the rest of Cuba, but also the Spanish command. These cables had many key junctions, namely, a shore near Cienfuegos . The cables connected to Havana, the port of Santiago, and then branched off to other Caribbean islands such as Jamaica.
The action of 25 April 1898 was a minor single ship action of the Spanish–American War fought near Cárdenas, Cuba, between the American torpedo boat USS Foote under Lieutenant William Ledyard Rodgers and the Spanish gunboat Ligera under Lieutenant Antonio Pérez Rendón.