Travels in the West: Cuba; with Notices of Porto Rico, and the Slave TradeLongman, Orne, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1840 - 574 pages |
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Travels in the West: Cuba; with Notices of Porto Rico, and the Slave Trade David Turnbull Affichage du livre entier - 1840 |
Travels in the West: Cuba; with Notices of Porto Rico, and the Slave Trade David Turnbull Affichage du livre entier - 1840 |
Travels in the West: Cuba: With Notices of Porto Rico, and the Slave Trade David Turnbull Affichage du livre entier - 1840 |
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Page 475 - Adelantado of the Floridas added the office of Governor of Cuba, having arrived at Santiago, passed a few days there, and then proceeded to the continent. In his absence he left the government of the island in the hands of a lady, Dona Isabel de Bobadilla, and gave her for a colleague Don Juan de Rojas. This Rojas had previously resided at the Havana, in quality of Lieutenant-Governor; and...
Page 498 - Havana 700 ; two battalions of the regiment de Espana 1400 ; two battalions of the regiment de Aragon 1400 ; three companies of artillery 300 ; seamen and marines of the squadron 9000 ; militia and people of color 14,000 — making a grand total of 27,610. The greater part of the Spanish force was stationed in the town of Guanabacao, on the side of the bay opposite to the Havana, between the points where the invading forces had landed, in order to prevent them from turning the head of the harbor...
Page 540 - Don Juan de Aguilar y Amat, who arrived in the American ship Dispatch. The colonial government immediately declared war against Napoleon ; and on the 20th, King Ferdinand VII. was proclaimed with general applause. The intelligence from Spain and the resolution of the captain-general were immediately communicated to all the colonial authorities in Spanish America. The events in the Peninsula soon began to be felt at the Havana ; but the demands of the French intruders for the recognition of their...
Page 542 - The western districts of the island were visited, in 1810, by another of those tremendous hurricanes, which sweep away so much life and property in these tropical regions. The city of the Havana was filled with consternation and dismay ; the hopes of an abundant harvest were disappointed ; in the...
Page 488 - Seven of the Spaniards are said to have attempted to escape, but were carried prisoners to a neighboring Indian town, where they were all put to death except one, who escaped to tell the tale of the Matanza. The next captain-general was Don Diego de Cordoba Lazo de la Vega ; to him in 1702 succeeded Don Pedro Nicolas Benitez de Lugo, who died soon after his arrival. The next captain-general was Don Pedro Alvarez de Villarin, who arrived in 1706, and died the same year. After him, in 1708, came the...
Page 490 - Fuertes, who died in the following year. He was the first captain-general who thought it necessary to establish a separate hospital for the reception of dissolute and incorrigible women ; for which purpose the revenues of vacant ecclesiastical offices were to be applied. The date of the termination of the government of Martinez has not been very clearly defined : he was succeeded provisionally by Don Diego de Penalosa, as teniente rey de la plaza, and was replaced in 1747 by Don Francisco Cagigal...
Page 482 - Don Francisco de Prada was sent out to inquire into them, and by him the captaingeneral was sent home to the Peninsula, when de Prada assumed the civil and political jurisdiction, and assigned the military command to Don Cristobal de Aranda, the alcaide of the Morro. During the joint administration of de Prada and Aranda it was resolved to shut up the entrance of the harbor by means of a chain drawn across it, a resolution which is described by the historians of the period as having been exceedingly...
Page 59 - As the barracoon, or depot, serves the purpose of a market place as well as a prison, these two have, doubtless for the sake of readier access, and to save the expense of advertising in the journals, been placed at the point of greatest attraction, where the Paseo ends, where the grounds of the Captain-General begin, and where passes the new...
Page 44 - ... several offices proposed to be regulated upon such an establishment with respect to the number and rank of the persons requisite for the discharge of the efficient functions of such offices, and the amount of salary to be assigned to each person, as may appear to them adequate, after a full inquiry into the nature and extent of the duties to be performed, and the degree of official and pecuniary responsibility which necessarily attaches to some of them.
Page 475 - His example was followed by subsequent governors, and in this way the city, although without any royal or legal sanction, came to be silently regarded as the capital of the island, until in 1589 it was formally declared so by the peninsular government, at the time of the nomination of the first captain-general, El Maestre de Campo, Juan de Tejada, who was positively directed to take up his residence at the Havana.