[Cuba]

Don Manuel O'Reilly y Ruiz de Apodaca, Coronel Comandante Militar de Esta Jurisdiccion, &. Bando [caption title]

Guanabacoa: Imprenta el Progreso, 1896. Broadside, approximately 17 x 12.5 inches. Previously folded. Some biopredation at left edge, not affecting text. Otherwise, faint foxing, light tanning and dust soiling. Two contemporary manuscript rubrics. About very good. Item #3188

Unrecorded broadside that orders the presentation of privately-owned horses and pack animals in the town square of Guanabacoa for requisition by the Spanish army in January 1896, at the outset of the Cuban uprising that would eventually lead to the end of Spanish colonial rule. This bando states first that, "Todos los que posean dichos animales, sin excepción alguna, se presentarán con ellos en la Plaza del Recreo de esta Villa, desde las 8 á las 10 de la mañana, á partir de mañana 8, con objeto de que reconocidos por la junta al efecto queden requisados." Following these initial, voluntary presentations, inspections would be made of homes and farms, and those found not to have handed over usable animals would be guilty disobeying army orders during a time of war. At this point, Spain had 100,000 troops on the island, and another two years of fighting the insurrection incited by José Marti would pass before the intervention of the United States. Not in OCLC.

Price: $650.00