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The López filibusters seized Cárdenas, Cuba, on May
19, 1850.
The rebel flag appears on the burning Capitular House.
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ARTICLES
The
Attack on Cardenas: A Reliable andAuthentic Account by Officers Engaged
in the Expedition Missouri Republican, June 23, 1850.
CubaThe
American Whig Review, July 1850, 107-108.
The
Threatened Cuba Invasion (N.Y. Weekly Herald, May 3, 1851)
Monthly
Record of Current Events, Harper's Magazine. Oct. 1851, 692.
"Important
From Cuba," Baltimore Sun, Aug. 23, 1852, 1
The
Trial and Conviction of the Publishers of the Voice of the People (N.Y.
Herald, Sept. 21, 1852)
"Cuban
Anniversary," Texas State Gazette (Austin), Sept. 16, 1854,
p. 28
Cuba
and the Ostend Manifesto, Harper's Monthly Magazine, May 1870,
898-901.
The
First of the Filibusters: Reminiscences of the Lopez Expedition of 1850The
State (Columbia, S.C.), Jan. 20, 1897, 6.
Correspondence
with Spain, The Works of Daniel Webster, Vol VI, (1890)
JOURNAL ARTICLES
Anglo-American
Filibusters and the Gadsden Treaty The Hispanic American Historical
Review, Vol. 5, No. 2. (May, 1922), pp. 155-180.
The
Africanization of Cuba Scare, 1853-1855 The Hispanic American Historical
Review, Vol. 37, No. 1. (Feb., 1957), pp. 29-45.
Cuban
Filibustering in Jacksonville in 1851 Northeast Florida History
Journal, Vol. 3, 1996, pp. 17-34.
Daniel
Webster and the Politics of Foreign Policy: 1850-1852 The Journal
of American History, Vol. 63, No. 2. (Sep., 1976), pp. 303-315.
Filibusters
and Freemasons: The Sworn Obligation Journal of the Early Republic,
Vol. 17, No. 1. (Spring, 1997), pp. 95-120.
The
Knights of the Golden Circle: The Career of George Bickley The American
Historical Review, Vol. 47, No. 1. (Oct., 1941), pp. 23-50.
Lobbyists
for Commercial Empire: Jane Cazneau, William Cazneau, and U.S. Caribbean
Policy, 1846-1878 The Pacific Historical Review, Vol. 48, No.
3. (Aug., 1979), pp. 383-412.
Pierre
Soule: Southern Expansionist and Promoter The Journal of Southern
History, Vol. 21, No. 2. (May, 1955), pp. 203-223.
Southern
Designs on Cuba, 1854-1857 and Some European Opinions The Journal
of Southern History, Vol. 5, No. 3. (Aug., 1939), pp. 371-385.
The
Proposed Anglo-Franco-American Treaty of 1852 to Guarantee Cuba to SpainTransactions
of the Royal Historical Society, 4th Ser., Vol. 13. (1930), pp. 149-185.
The
Taylor Administration Versus Mississippi Sovereignty: The Round Island
Expedition of 1849, The Journal of Mississippi History. Winter
2000, pp. 1-33.
Review
of Tom Chaffin's Fatal Glory: Narciso Lopez and the First Clandestine
U.S. War Against Cuba (Charlottesville and London: University Press
of Virginia, 1996), The Florida Historical Quarterly, Summer 1997,
pp. 88-90.
Young
American Males and Filibustering in the Age of Manifest Destiny: The United
States Army as a Cultural Mirror The Journal of American History,
Vol. 78, No. 3. (Dec., 1991), pp. 857-886.
Young
America, The American Historical Review, Vol. 32, No. 1, (Oct.
1926), 34-55.
Homenaje
al Patriota Bernardino Hernandez Antonio M. Maicas y Dominguez (1951)
THE UNITED STATES MAGAZINE AND DEMOCRATIC REVIEW
General
Lopez, the Cuban Patriot, Feb. 1850, 97-112.
The
Late Cuba State Trials, April 1852, 307-319.
The
Order of the Lone Star, Jan. 1853, 80-85.
The
Spaniards at Havana and the Whigs at Washington, Oct. 1852, 326-336
Personal
Narrative of Louis Schlesinger, of Adventures in Cuba and Ceuta (I),
Sept. 1852, 210-224
Personal
Narrative of Louis Schlesinger, of Adventures in Cuba and Ceuta (II),
Oct. 1852, 352-368
Personal
Narrative of Louis Schlesinger, of Adventures in Cuba and Ceuta (III),
Nov.-Dec. 1852, 553-592
ANTHEMS
Anthem
of Narciso Lopez
CARTOONS:
The
Great Naval Blockade of Round Island (Library of Congress)
The
American Rover-General Wot Tried to Steal a Cuba (Puck)
La
Hazañas del pirata López (Havana)
Gen.
Lopez the Cuban Patriot Getting His Cash
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE:
U.S.
Department of State Miscellaneous Letters June 1850
DOCUMENTS
1850 Lopez
Proclamations
Col.
M. C. Taylor's Diary in Lopez Cardenas Expeition, 1850
Filibuster
Correspondence (1849-1851)
Primer
Acta del Consejo de Gobierno Superior (Nov. 14, 1849)
Carta
de la Junta Suprema a Narciso López (Nov. 22, 1849)
Primer
Acta de la Junta Suprema (Nov. 29, 1849)
Doctrina
del periódico La Verdad (Enero 20, 1850)
Ideas
fundamentales para una constitución provisional (Enero 9, 1850)
Proyecto
de arreglo entre Narciso López y el Consejo Cubano (Febrero
1850)
Relato
de José M. Navarro, empleado de la Aduana de Cárdenas
Secret
Code Used by the Filibusters
Statement
of the Kentucky Regiment
EMBLEMS
Coat
of arms
Havana
Club Flag
GARIBALDI, GIUSEPPE
Affairs
in Cuba (Baltimore Sun, Sept. 21, 1850)
Havana
Correspondence (Boston Daily Evening Transcript, March
27, 1851)
Affairs
in Cuba (Daily Ohio Statesman, April 14, 1851)
Departure
of Garibaldi for California (Boston Daily Evening Transcript,
April 30, 1851)
Further
News of the Cuba Expedition (Baltimore Sun, May 3, 1851)
Movements
of Distinguished Individuals (N.Y. Weekly Herald, May
3, 1851)
Cuba
(Milwaukee Daily Sentinel & Gazette, June 4, 1851)
Garibaldi
arrived in Panama (Baltimore Sun, Oct. 8, 1851)
LOCATIONS
Banks
Arcade (New Orleans)
The
Battle of Cárdenas: May 19, 1850
Cárdenas, Cuba
Cárdenas,
Cuba (panorama)
Filibuster
Monument (Louisville, Kentucky)
Last
Lopez Expedition
Mujeres
Island, Mexico
With
Casinos Calling, Island Won't Cash In
MAPS
Cárdenas,
Cuba
Cardenas
1851
Coastal
Georgia in 1849
Kentucky
counties 1846
Round
Island, Mississippi
Round
Island nautical map
NEWSPAPERS
El
Pueblo (New York, Junio 29, 1855)
PAMPERO
Wreck of the
steamer Pampero off the coast of Myrtle Beach, S.C.
POSTAGE STAMP
Centenario
de la Bandera Cubana 1850-1950
ACTIVISTS
Agramonte,
Gaspar de
Aguero
y Aguero, Joaquin de
Aldama
Alfonso, Miguel de
Allen,
John "Jack"
Arango,
Agustín A.
Armenteros
Muñoz, Isidoro de
Arnao
Alonso, Juan
Balser,
James
Barton,
William H.
Bellido
de Luna, Juan
Betancourt
Cisneros, Gaspar
Breckenridge,
Newton Colbert
Breckenridge,
Robert H.
Brown,
Levi
Crisler,
Leonard
Crittenden,
William L.
Davis,
Ezekiel C.
Davis, John
Eayers
Dear,
Joseph C.
Estrampes
Gomez, Francisco
Facciolo
Alba, Eduardo
Fayssoux,
Callender I.
Ford,
John "Rip"
Frias
Jacott, Francisco de
Gardiner,
George A.
Gener
Family
Goicouría,
Domingo de
Gonzales,
Ambrosio José
Gournay,
Francis Paul de
Guiteras
Brothers
Harney,
Benjamin Mills
Harris,
Thomas
Hawkins,
Thomas T.
Higgins,
John F.
Hoy,
Thomas P.
Johnson,
Albert W.
Kennedy,
Thomas J.
Kentucky
Filibuster supporters
Knight,
W. T.
Kookogey,
Samuel J.
Knott,
Clark
Laine,
Francisco Alejandro
Lama, John
Loño,
Angel de
López,
Narciso
Lovell,
Mansfield
Luce,
Alonzo B
Macias,
Juan Manuel
Mádan,
Cristobal
Mahan,
Francis C.
Mann,
Robert
Martin,
James M.
McCann,
John
McCleskey,
George A.
McDerman,
John
McDonald,
Edmund H.
McGuffin,
John
Mendive,
Rafael Maria
O'Hara,
Theodore
O'Sullivan,
John L.
Pickett,
John Thomas
Pintó,
Ramón
Pomeroy,
Augustus
Ponce,
Antonio
Quintero,
José Agustín
Quitman,
John
Rawlings,
Carroll
Reading,
John
Redding,
William
Robinson,
Henry
Rosis, Tomás
M.
Saco,
Jose Antonio
Sánchez
Yznaga, José María
Sayre,
Burwell Bassett
Scott,
Malbon K.
Scott,
Dr. Samuel S.
Sigur,
Laurent J.
Smith,
Joseph A.
Spalding,
Randolph
Taylor,
Joseph W.
Taylor,
Marion Cartright
Teurbe
Tolón, Miguel
Thrasher,
John Sidney
Titus, Henry
Theodore
Tosca,
Basilio N.
Triplett,
Robert S.
Valiente,
Porfirio
Villaverde,
Cirilo
Walker,
William
Wayne,
Richard
Wheat,
Chatham Roberdeau
WIlliams,
John Stuart
Wilson,
Fielding C.
Winston,
Thomas M.