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The Occupation of Havana War, Trade, and Slavery in the Atlantic World - Elena A. Schneider 2018 EPUB Omohundro Institute and University of North Carolina Press BOOKS MILITARY HISTORY
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The Occupation of Havana War, Trade, and Slavery in the Atlantic World
Author: Elena A. Schneider
Year: 2018
Number of pages: 360
Format: EPUB
File size: 16.7 MB
Language: ENG

In 1762, British forces mobilized more than 230 ships and 26,000 soldiers, sailors, and enslaved Africans to attack Havana, one of the wealthiest and most populous ports in the Americas. They met fierce resistance. Spanish soldiers and local militias in Cuba, along with enslaved Africans who were promised freedom, held off the enemy for six suspenseful weeks. In the end, the British prevailed, but more lives were lost in the invasion and subsequent eleven-month British occupation of Havana than during the entire Seven Years' War in North America.

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