Cuban Filibuster Movement  (1849-1856)

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The López filibusters seized Cárdenas, Cuba, on May 19, 1850.
The rebel flag appears on the burning Capitular House.



 
 
 

1850 proclamation
Narciso Lopez and filibusters

 
 


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.