. An illustrated history of our war with Spain : its causes, incidents, and results. fortified towns, and came tounderstand it as an emblem of rapacity, cruelty, and autumn day in 1868 Antonio returned to his fathersplantation from Baracoa with the information that the Cubanshad rebelled. The father, being a careful man, at once ad-vised his family to remain strictly neutral. But they secretlyexulted over the successes of their countrymen, and it mayhave been that the Spaniards obtained an inkling of their sen-timents. At any rate, Spanish spies began to annoy them,and more than once
. An illustrated history of our war with Spain : its causes, incidents, and results. fortified towns, and came tounderstand it as an emblem of rapacity, cruelty, and autumn day in 1868 Antonio returned to his fathersplantation from Baracoa with the information that the Cubanshad rebelled. The father, being a careful man, at once ad-vised his family to remain strictly neutral. But they secretlyexulted over the successes of their countrymen, and it mayhave been that the Spaniards obtained an inkling of their sen-timents. At any rate, Spanish spies began to annoy them,and more than once they were threatened. The revolutionhad been in progress for some months, and the Spaniards werewild over a series of disasters, when there appeared at theMaceo plantation a band of Spanish guerrillas. Maceo andhis older sons were away with a mule train. They returned at nightfall. As the plantation came intoview, a horrifying sight met the gaze of Maceo and his his home had been there was nothing but a smoulder-ing heap of ashes and embers. His barns were burned, his.
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