. Cuba and the fight for freedom; a powerful and thrilling history of the "Queen of the Antilles," . r 38 CUBA. as possible the trammels imposed upon it by theold system of monopoly, and also made nobleefforts for the emancipation of the slaves. It wasowing to his wise administration that the islandremained peaceful during the time of the revolu-tion in Hayti, although the latter was closelywatched by the negroes in Cuba and a con-spiracy for revolt was actually formed amongthem by French agents. Many of the Frenchwho were driven out of Hayti by the negro revo-lutionists came to Cuba in 1795 a
. Cuba and the fight for freedom; a powerful and thrilling history of the "Queen of the Antilles," . r 38 CUBA. as possible the trammels imposed upon it by theold system of monopoly, and also made nobleefforts for the emancipation of the slaves. It wasowing to his wise administration that the islandremained peaceful during the time of the revolu-tion in Hayti, although the latter was closelywatched by the negroes in Cuba and a con-spiracy for revolt was actually formed amongthem by French agents. Many of the Frenchwho were driven out of Hayti by the negro revo-lutionists came to Cuba in 1795 and settled news that Napoleon had deposed theroyal family of Spain reached Cuba in July, caused great excitement and aroused muchpatriotic enthusiasm. All the officers of theisland at once took oath to preserve Cuba for thedeposed sovereign and declared war againstNapoleon. It was partly from this fact, andpartly from the fact that it remained loyal to Spainwhen, a dozen years later, all the South Americancolonies revolted, that Cuba received the name of-The Ever Faithful CHAPTER II. GENERAL VIEW OF THE ISLAND THE LAY OF THE LAND THE CLIMATE MINERAL RESOURCES ANIMAL LIFE VEGETABLE LIFE CUBAN SCE-NERY A NATURAL GARDEN AMERICAN VISI-TORS TO CUBA.
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