2-751-083 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Daiquiri, Wednesday June 22nd, 4.30 P.M.', Spanish-American War, June 1898, (1899). On 22 June 1898, some 16,000 American troops under US Navy Admiral William T. Sampson and US Army General William Rufus Shafter landed at the small village of Daiquirí near Santiago de Cuba. Sampson fired on Daiquirí, dispersing the 300 or so Spanish troops there. Cuban troops under Cuban General Calixto García cut off the Spaniards' communications and supply at Cabañas. From "The Little I saw of Cuba" by Burr McIntosh, with photographs by the author. (In 1898, American actor and journalist William Burr McIntosh went to Cuba to cover the Spanish-American War for "Leslie's Weekly" as a reporter and photographer). [F. Tennyson Neely, London & New York, 1899]