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Source citation
"Isla de Cuba," El Siglo Diez y Nueve (Mexico), September 12, 1851, p. 4: 1.
Newspaper: Publication
El Siglo Diez y Nueve (Mexico)
Newspaper: Headline
Isla de Cuba
Newspaper: Page(s)
4
Newspaper: Column
1
Type
Newspaper
Date Certainty
Exact
Transcriber
Brian Bockelman
Transcription date
Transcription
This text has been translated from the Spanish. Every effort has been
made to preserve the content of the original while making it accessible
to an English-speaking audience. Where necessary, abbreviations in the
original have been written out in full.
Island of Cuba.
Yesterday afternoon news that the Americans had been defeated in Cuba began to circulate in this capital, and the text we are reproducing below was published overnight:
Total Defeat of the Americans on the Island of Cuba
Through a personal letter received at vespers on the night of the 11th, the following is known:
“Veracruz September 8, 1851.
“Today a packet from Tabasco arrived bearing news of the Island of Cuba. The 1500 men that landed in Bahía-Honda were put to the knife, except for fifty, among them ex-General López, who it was believed had hidden himself with the desperados in the mountains. In twenty-four hours they fortified themselves three times; but the Spanish troops launched upon them with bayonets and devastated them, making a simple affair out of the death of General Enna and various other chiefs and soldiers, victims of their own daring.
“Later, upon reviewing the battlefield, a mutilated cadaver was found, wearing a general’s epaulet and widely believed to be the body of ex-General Don Narciso López.
“Little by little, isolated maneuvers picked up the dispersed men, and the field captains in turn gave them the news that they were going to be executed.
“This is positive in that the Yankees will not wish to send more ‘people.’”