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BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS
A Flibustiero. Life
of General Lopez, and History of the Late Attempted Revolution in Cuba.
(1851)
Alvarez Pedroso, Antonio. Miguel
de Aldama (1948)
Apuntes
históricos sobre la espedición pirática que invadió
la isla de Cuba en mayo de 1850 (1850)
Argilagos, Francisco R. Proceres
de la Independencia de Cuba (1916)
Battles
of Cuba! (1852)
Bellido de Luna, Juan. La
Anexion de Cuba a los Estados Unidos (1888)
Bernal, Emilia. Francisco
Aguero y Estrada: El Solitario (1935)
Betancourt, Gaspar and J. S. Thrasher. Addresses
Delivered at the Celebration of the Third Anniversary in Honor of the Martyrs
for Cuban Freedom (1854)
Bland, William. The
Awful Doom of the Traitor; or the Terrible Fate of the Deluded and Guilty(1852)
Boggess, F. C. M. A
Veteran of Four Wars (1900)
Boyd, Jesse W. Lopez's
Expeditions to Cuba
Brownson, Orestes Augustus. Opiniones
de un anglo-americano acerca de la espedicion cubana y los anexionistas(1850)
Caldwell, Robert Granville. Lopez
Expeditions to Cuba 1848-51 (1918)
Castellanos G., Gerardo. Panorama
Historico: Ensayo de cronologia cubana desde 1492 hasta 1933 (1934)
Castro
de Morales, Lilia. Impresos
relativos a Cuba editados en los Estados Unidos de Norteamerica (1956)
Coleccion
de los partes y otros documentos publicados en la Gaceta Oficial de La
Habana referentes a la invasion de la gavilla de piratas capitaneada por
el traidor Narciso Lopez (1851)
Comunicaciones
reservadas al Gobierno Supremo (Feb. 1850-Marzo 1851) Boletin del
Archivo Nacional, Julio-Agosto 1918.
Correspondence
Between the Treasury Department, &c., in Relation to the Cuba Expedition,
and William Freret, Late Collector (1851)
Delaplain, Sophia. A
Thrilling and Exciting Account of the Sufferings and Horrible Tortures
Inflicted on Mortimer Bowers and Miss Sophia Delaplain, by the Spanish
Authorities, for a Supposed Participation with Gen. Lopez in the Invasion
of Cuba (1851)
Fernandez de Castro, Jose Antonio. Medio
siglo de historia colonial de Cuba: Cartas a Jose Antonio Saco ordenadas
y comentadas (1823 a 1879) (1923)
Fernandez Fernandez, Justo. Don
Narciso Lopez y Uriola, el Centauro del Rey: Sus años de actividad
en Cuba (1823-1826 / 1841-1851) Caracas, 1992.
Garcia Valdes, Pedro. La
idea de la anexion de Cuba a los Estados Unidos de Norteamerica fue una
consecuencia circunstancial del momento (1947)
Gonzales,
Ambrosio Jose. Manifesto
on Cuban Affairs Addressed to the People of the United States: Sept. 1,
1852 (1853)
Hardy, Richardson. History
and Adventures of the Cuban Expedition (1850)
Jones, Alexander. Cuba
in 1851 (1851)
Lansing, Marion F. Lopez
and His Times. Liberators and Heroes of the West Indian Islands
(1953)
Llaverias, Joaquin. La
Comision Militar Ejecutiva y Permanente de la Isla de Cuba (1929)
_____. "La
Voz del Pueblo Cubano" Contribucion a la Historia de la Prensa Periodica
(1959)
Madan, Cristobal. Contestacion
a un folleto titulado: Ideas sobre la incorporacion de Cuba en los Estados
Unidos, por Don Jose Antonio Saco (1849)
Maicas y Dominguez, Antonio M. Homenaje
al patriota Bernardino Hernandez (1951)
Manifiesto
de la Junta Cubana al Pueblo de Cuba (1855)
Morales y Morales, Vidal. Iniciadores
y primeros martires de la revolucion cubana (1901)
_____. Iniciadores
y primeros martires de la revolucion cubana, tomo 2 (1931)
_____. Iniciadores
y primeros martires de la revolucion cubana, tomo 3 (1931)
O.D.D.O. The
History of the Late Expedition to Cuba (1850)
Pickens, Lucy Holcomb (H. M. Hardimann). The
Free Flag of Cuba; or the Martyrdom of Lopez (1854)
Portell Vila, Herminio. Narciso
Lopez y su epoca, tomo 1 (1930)
_____. Narciso
Lopez y su epoca, tomo 2 (1952)
_____. Narciso
Lopez y su epoca, tomo 3 (1958)
_____. Narciso
Lopez, presursor de la independencia de Cuba. Vidas de la Unidad
Americana. (1944)
Quisenberry, Anderson C. Lopez's
Expeditions to Cuba 1850 and 1851 (1906)
Ramirez Hoyos, Vicente. ¿Quien
salvó a Cuba en 1851? (1870)
Rodriguez, Jose Ignacio. Estudio
historico sobre el origen, desenvolvimiento y manifestaciones practicas
de la idea de la anexion de la isla de Cuba a los EE.UU. (1900)
Roig de Leuchsenring, Emilio. Los
primeros movimientos revolucionarios del general Narciso Lopez (1848-1849)
(1950)
_____. Homenaje
a los martires de 1851 (1951)
Rosengarten, Jr., Frederick. Freebooters
Must Die! (1976)
Rovira, Carlos A. y Carlos Echevarne. El
coronel Ordoñez y Cuba en 1851 (1867)
Torrente, Mariano. Bosquejo
economico politico de la isla de Cuba (1852)
Un cubano. La
Anexion de Cuba y Los Peninsulares residentes en ella (1853)
Una
accion heroica (1865)
Villaverde, Cirilo (a Flibustiero). Life
of General Lopez, and History of the Late Attempted Revolution in Cuba
Works
of Daniel Webster, Vol VI, (1890)
Zaragoza, Justo. Las
Insurrecciones en Cuba, Tomo I (1872)
THESIS AND DISSERTATIONS
The
Diplomatic Career of Pierre Soule (J. A. Reineke, Jr., 1914)
Cuba
in American Foreign Relations (1848-1861) as Shown in Messages of the Presidents
and Debates in Congress (Robert W. Mosley, 1930)
A
Local Study in "Manifest Destiny": New Orleans and the Cuban Question During
the Lopez Expeditions of 1849-1851 (C. Stanley Urban, 1938)
The
Life of Appleton Oaksmith: Its Latin American Aspects (John Jay TePaske,
1953)
The
Public Career of George Washington Towns (G. Wilson Page, Jr., 1970)
Empire
for Slavery: Economic and Territorial Expansion in the American Gulf South,
1835-1860 (Kimberly Ann Lamp, 1991)
NEWSPAPER 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)
Correspondence
of the Herald, Boston Herald, Aug. 11, 1851,2
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
Filibusterism
in America, New York Herald, Feb. 10, 1858
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.
JOURNAL ARTICLES
Anglo-American
Filibusters and the Gadsden Treaty. J. Fred Rippy. The Hispanic
American Historical Review, Vol. 5, No. 2. (May, 1922), pp. 155-180.
The
Africanization of Cuba Scare, 1853-1855. C. Stanley Urban. The
Hispanic American Historical Review, Vol. 37, No. 1. (Feb., 1957),
pp. 29-45.
Cuba
and the Tripartite Treaty. Edward B. Bryan. Southern Quarterly Review,
Jan. 1854, 1-17
Cuban
Filibustering in Jacksonville in 1851 Antonio Rafael de la Cova. Northeast
Florida History Journal, Vol. 3, 1996, pp. 17-34.
Daniel
Webster and the Politics of Foreign Policy: 1850-1852 Kenneth E. Shewmaker.
The
Journal of American History, Vol. 63, No. 2. (Sep., 1976), pp. 303-315.
Documents:
Bleeding Kansas and Spanish Cuba in 1857: A Postscript (Kansas History,
Winter 1988-1989)
The
Domestic Consequences of American Imperialism: Filibustering and Howard
Pyle's Pirates. Robert E. May. American Studies, Summer 2005.
Epilogue
to the Missouri Compromise: The South, the Balance of Power, and the Tropics
in the 1850s. Robert E. May. Plantation Society, June 1979,
201-225.
Expediciones
Filibusteras Contra Cuba 1848-1860. Juan Pedro Yaniz Ruiz. Historia
y Vida. Enero 1983.
The
Cuban Expedition.
Brownson's Quarterly Review, October 1850.
The
Ideology of Southern Imperialism: New Orleans and the Caribbean, 1845-1860.
C. Stanley Urban.
Louisiana Historical Quarterly, Jan. 1956, 48-73
The
Kentucky Regiment that Invaded Cuba in 1850 Antonio Rafael de la Cova.
The
Register of the Kentucky Historical Society. Autumn, 2007, pp. 571-615.
The
Knights of the Golden Circle: The Career of George Bickley. Ollinger
Crenshaw. The American Historical Review, Vol. 47, No. 1. (Oct.,
1941), pp. 23-50.
The
Late Cuba Expedition.
De Bow's Review, August 1850.
Lobbyists
for Commercial Empire: Jane Cazneau, William Cazneau, and U.S. Caribbean
Policy, 1846-1878 Robert E. May. The Pacific Historical Review,
Vol. 48, No. 3. (Aug., 1979), pp. 383-412.
Lopez's
Expeditions to Cuba. The Gulf States Historical Magazine, March-May
1904.
Mr.
Everett and the Cuban Question.
Southern Quarterly Review, April
1854, 429-470
Narciso
Lopez y el anexionismo en Cuba, en torno a la ideologia de los propietarios
de esclavos. Candelaria Saiz Pastor. Anuario de Estudios Americanos,
1986.
The
Navy and Filibustering in the Fifties United States Naval Institute
Proceedings, April, May, June, July, August, September 1918
Reconsidering
Antebellum U.S. Women's History: Gender, Filibustering, and America's Quest
for Empire. Robert E. May. American Quarterly, Dec. 2005.
Recortes
de periodicos de Cuba sobre los sucesos de Cardenas.Boletin
del Archivo Nacional,
Julio-Dic. 1920.
Reseña
oficial de lo ocurrido en Cardenas cuando la invasion del General Narciso
Lopez Boletin
del Archivo Nacional, Enero-Dic. 1926.
Southern
Designs on Cuba, 1854-1857 and Some European Opinions. Gavin B. Henderson.
The
Journal of Southern History, Vol. 5, No. 3. (Aug., 1939), pp. 371-385.
Southern
Expansionism: Urban Interests in the Cuban Filibusters. Richard Tansey.
Plantation
Society, June 1979, 227-251.
Sugar,
Slaves, and the Politics of Annexationism: Cuba, 1840-1855. Anton L.
Allahar.
Colonial Latin American Historical Review, Summer 1994,
281-304.
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. Antonio Rafael de la Cova. 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 Robert E. May. The Journal
of American History, Vol. 78, No. 3. (Dec., 1991), pp. 857-886.
Young
America. M. E. Curti. The American Historical Review, Vol. 32,
No. 1, (Oct. 1926), 34-55.
THE CONGRESSIONAL GLOBE
1848
1849
1850
1851
1852
1854
THE UNITED STATES MAGAZINE AND DEMOCRATIC REVIEW
Cuba,
Sept. 1849.
General
Lopez, the Cuban Patriot, Feb. 1850, 97-112.
The
Late Cuba State Trials, April 1852, 307-319.
The
Neutrality Law: What Does it Mean, What Prohibit and What Permits,
June 1852.
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
The
Cuban Debate, Nov. and Dec. 1852.
The
Cuban Debate--Postscript, Nov. and Dec. 1852.
The
Order of the Lone Star, Jan. 1853, 80-85.
Cuba:
Philosophy of the Ostende Correspondence, June 1855.
GACETA DE MADRID
Octubre 1848
Enero 1849
HARPER'S NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE
Three Weeks in Cuba,
by an Artist (January 18953)
ANTHEMS
Anthem
of Narciso Lopez
CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION (1850-1950)
U.S. Embassy
Havana, Despatch 677, March 24, 1950 (Cuban Invitation for Representatives
of the United States Armed Forces to Participate in the Celebration of
the First Centennial of the Cuban Flag)
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
CAT ISLAND
Cat
Island newspaper articles 1871
Cat
Island (Ray M. Thompson)
The
Unparalleled Past of Cat Island (James J. Stettler)
With
Casinos Calling, Island Won't Cash In
U.S. CONSUL AT MATANZAS
Thomas
M. Rodney Letter Book, 1849-1853
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE:
Correspondence
on the Lopez Expedition to Cuba 1849-51
Miscellaneous
Letters July-Oct 1849
Miscellaneous
Letters March-May 1850
Miscellaneous
Letters June 1850
Miscellaneous
Letters
July 1850
Miscellaneous
Letters Aug-Sept 1850
Miscellaneous
Letters Oct-Dec 1850
Miscellaneous
Letters Jan-Feb 1851
Miscellaneous
Letters March-May 1851
Miscellaneous
Letters June-Aug 1851
Miscellaneous
Letters September 1851
Miscellaneous
Letters October 1851
Miscellaneous
Letters Nov-Dec 1851
U.S. NAVY
Bauer, K. Jack, ed. Naval
Affairs, Vol.2, North America Antifilibustering Activities 1849-1855
Round
Island Expedition: Defence of the Navy (1849)
Miscellaneous Letters Received
by the Secretary of the Navy (August-November 1849)
Letters Received
by the Secretary of the Navy from Commanders (August-November 1849)
Letters Received
by the Secretary of the Navy from Commanders (April-August 1851)
Letters
Received by the Secretary of the Navy from Commanding Officers of Squadrons
(June 1849-November 1850)
Letters
Received by the Secretary of the Navy from Commanding Officers of Squadrons
(March 1851-April 1852)
CUBAN FLAG IN COSTA RICA
Museo
Historico Cultural Juan Santamaria, Alajuela, Costa Rica
La
Bandera de Walker
El
General Jose Victor Zavala y la captura de la bandera cubana
DOCUMENTS
1850 Lopez
Proclamations
Col.
M. C. Taylor's Diary in Lopez Cardenas Expedition, 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
FREEMASONRY
Filibusters
and Freemasons: The Sworn Obligation Antonio Rafael de la Cova. Journal
of the Early Republic, Vol. 17, No. 1. (Spring, 1997), pp. 95-120.
Minutes,
Solomon's Lodge No. 1, Savannah (1850-51)
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)
GEORGIA MILITIA
Georgia Militia,
Bibb County, 1846-49
Georgia Militia,
Camden County, 1836-48
Georgia Militia,
Chatham County, 1848-56
Georgia Militia,
Cherokee County, 1849
Georgia Militia,
Glynn County, 1848
Georgia Militia,
Muscogee County, 1846-49
KENTUCKY
Kentucky filibusters in
the Confederacy
Kentucky State Politics
in the Early 1850's (Wallace B. Turner)
History of Shelby County,
Kentucky (George L. Willis, Sr.)
Memorial History of
Louisville (J. Stoddard Johnston)
Steamboats at Louisville
and on the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers (Arthur E. Hopkins)
LOCATIONS
Banks
Arcade (New Orleans)
The
Battle of Cárdenas: May 19, 1850
Cárdenas, Cuba
Cárdenas,
Cuba (panorama)
Filibuster
Monument (Louisville, Kentucky)
Mujeres
Island, Mexico
Last
Lopez Expedition
MAPS
Cárdenas,
Cuba
Cardenas
1851
Coastal
Georgia in 1849
Kentucky
counties 1846
Round
Island, Mississippi
Round
Island nautical map
NEWSPAPERS
Cincinnati
Nonpareil (1850-1851)
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
LAST LOPEZ EXPEDITION PRISONERS
21 released expeditionaries
traveling from Cadiz to New York, Aug. 25, 1854
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
Bombalier,
Santiago
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
Family
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
Lamar, Mirabeau
Buonaparte
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.
Oaksmith,
Appleton
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
Schlesinger,
Louis
Scott,
Malbon K.
Scott,
Dr. Samuel S.
Sigur,
Laurent J.
Smith,
Joseph A.
Soule,
Pierre
Spalding,
Randolph
Taylor,
Joseph W.
Taylor,
Marion Cartright
Teurbe
Tolon, Emilia
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.
