Unlike the Ten Years' War, the Cuban Independence Movement of the 1890s was not ignored by the United States. By 1895, the United States was a very different nation than it had been in 1865.

A Spanish colony since the 15th century, following Christopher Columbus’s conquest of America, Cuba has always aspired to ...

Led by sugar planter Carlos Manuel de Cespedes, the Cuban Revolution began in 1868. Cespedes proclaimed independence and ... became known as the Ten Years' War. Although the Ten Years' War failed ...