Chronology of Colonial Cuba - Necessary War (1895-1898)

Necessary War (1895-1898)

The 24 of February explode the war with Grito de Baire. Jose Martí dies in the combat of Two Rivers, Province of East (19 of May 1895, a great loss for the Cuban independentista cause. The following year General Antonio Maceo next to his assistant dies Francisco Go'mez Toro, in the property San Pedro, Province of Havana, the 7 of December. The commander in chief, the Spanish Valeriano Weyler gave beginning to the reconcentración policy, that came to be like a prefiguration of the Nazi fields of extermination, directed to isolate to mambises of the town and that caused damage in the population. But in spite of the strength and the armament of the Spanish army, the tactics of the Cubans always prevailed and with the invasion from east to the West the process was accelerated that would give complete independence them. But in 1898 it flies in strange circumstances the American battleship Maine in the Bay of Havana, this fact brought like consequence the American intervention in the war, which War passes to be Hispanic-Cuban-North American that finishes with the treaty of Paris, the 10 of December per which Spain yields to Cuba and Puerto Rico to the United States. A new stage in Cuban history begins therefore.