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    The Siege of Havana was a successful British siege against Spanish-ruled Havana that lasted from March to August 1762, as part of the Seven Years' War...
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    Royal Spanish Navy. He is known for his valiant defense during the Siege of Havana in 1762, during which he was killed in action. Luis Vicente de Velasco...
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    future. The Siege of Havana was a successful British siege against Spanish-ruled Havana that lasted from March to August 1762 as part of the Seven Years'...
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  • Juan de Prado Mayera Portocarrero y Luna (category Governors of Cuba)
    governor of Cuba between 1761 and 1762, when he lost Havana in the Siege of Havana. Born at León, Spain, he was the second son of the 2nd Marquess of Prado...
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    America in general. The British captured Havana after a three-month siege and controlled the western part of the island for a year. Britain returned Cuba...
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  • June, while one battalion landed at Havana on 10 June. USS Mississippi landed her detachment at El Cuero on 19 June. Of the 1,292 men who landed at Guantanamo...
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    what had gone wrong with Cuban defenses during the successful British siege of Havana. He recommended sweeping reforms to improve the fortifications, training...
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    Spanish Marine Infantry (category Military of Spain)
    of Sardinia (1717). Spanish conquest of Oran (1732). Battle of Cartagena de Indias (1741). Siege of Havana (1762). Invasion of Algiers (1775). Siege of...
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    officials and legislators under a contract to search the Havana harbour, as well as the payment of fees to government associates and high-level officials...
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    its establishment in 1915. 1898 15 February: The USS Maine explodes in Havana harbor. 20 April: President McKinley signs a congressional joint resolution...
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    14, 1780, after a brief siege. Gálvez began planning an assault on Pensacola, West Florida's capital, using forces from Havana, with the recently captured...
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    sent two emissaries to Havana to seek a compromise between government and opposition. Regarding such neutrality as a censure of his government, Estrada...
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  • follows. Siege of Aratta (c. 2600 BC) this siege is semi or entirely mythical. Siege of Uruk (c. 2580 BC) Siege of Qabra (1780 BC) Siege of Hiritum (1764...
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    16th century the island of Cuba had been under the control of the governor-captain general of Santo Domingo. The conquest of Cuba was organized in 1510...
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  • information and passed it to the United States, as well as to authorities in Havana. They were instructed to fully cooperate with local authorities, in order...
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  • the Siege of Havana, a British expedition to capture Havana during the Seven Years' War, resulting in a decisive British victory Battle of Havana (1870)...
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    conviction." In a show of support for this "revolutionary justice," he organized the first Havana trial to take place before a mass audience of 17,000 at the Sports...
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    year in which they ruled Havana. The Siege of Havana was a military action that lasted from March to August 1762, and was a part of the Seven Years' War....
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    Caribbean Theatre of the Seven Years' War. They fought at the Siege of Havana, held by Spanish forces in Cuba, which ended in the surrender of the city to the...
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    Gutierre de Hevia (category Year of birth unknown)
    year on the side of France. On 6 June 1762 a powerful British invasion force under the Earl of Albemarle began the Siege of Havana. Hevia's ships played...
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    Seven Years' War Siege of Havana Danley & Speelman pp. 463-464. Draper 2006, p. 101. Tracy, Nicholas (1995). Manila Ransomed. University of Exeter Press....
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    Dido Elizabeth Belle (category English people of Scottish descent)
    during the Siege of Havana, but this specific date is unlikely, as Dido was born in 1761. The obituary also failed to mention the existence of John and...
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    failed; the leaders were captured, deported or executed. In the province of Havana, the insurrection was discovered before it began, and its leaders were...
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  • the capture of Gorée in 1758), the fourth-rate HMS Princess Mary, the third-rate HMS Belleisle (in which he took part in the siege of Havana in 1762), the...
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    money and a lot of men / and his honor in Havana / in six months alone." (The invasion of Portugal took six months while the siege of Havana lasted two months)...
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    promoted to lieutenant of HMS Orford, with captain Mariot Arbuthnot. In this capacity he participated in the Siege of Havana under Sir George Pocock...
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    Arthur Phillip (category Governors of New South Wales)
    serve at the Siege of Havana. On 7 June 1761, Phillip was commissioned as a lieutenant in recognition for his active service. With the coming of peace on...
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    western side of the harbor in Old Havana. The Battle of Havana was a two-month siege of the harbor defenses by the British in 1762. The sinking of the U.S...
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    Columbia, west of Havana. The military administration worried about their troops contracting typhoid, malaria and gonorrhea, and ten percent of the soldiers...
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  • Benoni Danks (category American Revolutionary War prisoners of war held by Great Britain)
    corps, led by Major Joseph Gorham. As part of this corps, Danks and his company took part in the Siege of Havana in 1762, where, according to Israel Putnam...
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