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| The Historical Backdrop For The War Was The Growing Cuban Strugle For Independence From | "Spain]" class="copylinks" target="_blank">that had been simmering off and on for over thirty years and which had captured the American imagination American newspapers had been agitating for intervention with sensational stories of Spanish attrocities against the native Cuban population even though Spain had removed the general behind the harsh policies that had displaced thousands of Cubans in the countryside and had, as in most insurrections, placed them squarely in the crosshairs between 30,000 Spanish troops and the ''insurectos'', or Cubans fighting for independence When a riot broke out in Havana over the destruction of the printing presses of four local newspapers for publishing articles critical of Spanish Army attrocities, the US Consul-General, son of [Robert E Lee , and former Civil WarCivil War officer, Lee cabled Washington with fears for the lives of Americans, the United States wasted no time sending a tepid response It was into this explosive situation of an ongoing independence struggle that the inquiry reported that it was caused by submarine mine and one month later the war was declared (A total of four Investigations looked into the causes of the explosion with the investigators coming to different conclusions An investigation conducted in 1976 by scientists concluded that the explosion was most likely the result of an internal combustion in a coal bunker that was situated next to a powder magazine a 1999 investigation commissioned by '' National Geographic Magazine '' and carried out by Advanced Marine Enterprises disagreed, concluding that “it appears more probable than was previously concluded that a mine caused the inward bent bottom structure and the detonation of the magazines”) |
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