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3 unusual facts about Santiago de Cuba


Jennings Cox

He worked for the Spanish-American Iron Company, situated near the village of Daiquirí, about 4 miles east of Santiago de Cuba.

Prensa Latina

In a speech by Fidel Castro in Santiago de Cuba in 1959, Castro denounced the United States media and instead favoured a Latin American service "written in our own language".

Tele Rebelde

Tele Rebelde signed on July 22, 1968, in the city of Santiago de Cuba.


Alfonso XII-class cruiser

She was immobilized by boiler trouble at Santiago de Cuba when the Spanish-American War began, and was trapped there along with the squadron of Vice Admiral Pascual Cervera y Topete.

Alfredo Rostgaard

Born in Guantanamo in 1943 Rostgaard studied at the Jose Joaquin Tejada school of art in Santiago de Cuba.

Bartolomé Masó

In 1879, after the end of the Ten Years' War, he was imprisoned with the colonels Ricardo and Ismael Céspedes, first in the Castillo del Morro of Santiago de Cuba, and after in the Castillo de Santa Catalina, Puerto Rico.

Cuba national cricket team

Their teams played in leagues and cup competitions in Santiago de Cuba, Guantánamo and Baraguá.

Cubana de Aviación

By the end of the decade, the carrier had a fleet of four Ford Trimotors and three Lockheed Electras that operated on the domestic Havana–Camaguey, Havana–GuantanamoBaracoa and Santiago–Baracoa routes.

Desiderio Alberto Arnaz II

Desiderio Alberto Arnaz y Alberni II (8 March 1894, in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba – 31 May 1973, in Miami, Florida, USA) was a Cuban politician and the father of Desi Arnaz.

Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar

He founded a number of new Spanish settlements and cities on the island, first Baracoa in 1511 and then most notably Santiago de Cuba in 1514 and Havana in 1515.

Guantánamo Bay

British Admiral Edward Vernon arrived with a force of eight warships and 4,000 soldiers with plans to march on Santiago de Cuba.

Intendant

(Two new intendancies with oversight only over the treasury were established in 1786 in Camagüey and Santiago de Cuba.)

Jardines del Rey

Jacques de Sores is said to have used it as a base of operations for his attacks of Santiago de Cuba in 1554.

Lytle Brown

Brown served with engineer troops in Cuba in 1898 at the Battle of San Juan Hill and the siege of Santiago before being made Engineer of the Department of Northern Luzon in the Philippine Islands in 1900.

Osmay Acosta

became the junior world champ at 75 kg/165 lbs in 2002 in Santiago de Cuba beating Russian Nikolai Galacki 10:9, Uzbek Alisher Matniazov KO, and Kazack Dmitriy Gotfrid in the final 14:8.

SS West Saginaw

She departed London on 27 August for Falmouth, Cornwall, arriving on 30 August and departing that day for Santiago de Cuba, Cuba, from where she departed on 22 September for Cienfuegos, arriving on 24 September.

Timeline of the Cuban Revolution

1957 July 30 Cuban revolutionary Frank País is killed in the streets of Santiago de Cuba by police while campaigning for the overthrow of Batista government

It began with the assault on the Moncada Barracks on July 26, 1953, and ended on January 1, 1959, when Batista was driven from the country and the cities Santa Clara and Santiago de Cuba were seized by rebels, led by Che Guevara and Fidel Castro's surrogates Raúl Castro and Huber Matos, respectively .

Webb Hayes

He fought in Santiago de Cuba Campaign, during which he was wounded during the crossing of the San Juan River and the assault on San Juan Hill, and later in the invasion of Puerto Rico.


see also

Almirante Oquendo

Almirante Oquendo, a Spanish Navy armored cruiser that fought in the Battle of Santiago de Cuba during the Spanish-American War.

Furor

Furor, a Spanish destroyer which fought in the Battle of Santiago de Cuba during the Spanish-American War.

Guama

Guamá, Cuba, a municipality in Santiago de Cuba Province, Cuba

Juan Nepomucino Goetz

When Esteban Salas y Castro, choirmaster in the Cathedral of Santiago de Cuba, died in 1803, the election of the new Maestro de Capilla was an extraordinary event.