See also:

• CARDENAS (San Juan de Dios de Cardenas)

CARDENAS (See also:

• SAN

San Juan de Dios de Cardenas)  , a maritime See also:

• TOWN

town of See also:

• CUBA (the aboriginal name)

Cuba, in See also:

• MATANZAS

Matanzas See also:

• PROVINCE
• PROVINCE (Lat. provincia; perhaps a contraction of providentia)

province, about 75 M . E. of See also:

• HAVANA (the name is of aboriginal origin; Span. Habana or, more fully, San Cristobal de la Habana)

Havana, on the level and somewhat marshy See also:

• SHORE

shore of a spacious See also:

• BAY

bay of the See also:

• NORTHERN

northern See also:

• COAST (from Lat. costa, a rib, side)

coast of the See also:

• ISLAND (O.E. ieg =isle, +land')

island, sheltered by a See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long promontory . Pop . (1907) 24,280 . It has railway communication with the See also:

• TRUNK (Fr. tronc, Lat. truncus, cut off, maimed)

trunk railway of the island, and communicates by See also:

• REGULAR

regular steamers with all the coast towns . The See also:

• CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city lies between the See also:

• SEA (in O. Eng. sae, a common Teutonic word; cf. Ger. See, Dutch Zee, &c.; the ultimate source is uncertain)
• SEA, COMMAND OF THE

sea and hills . There are broad streets, various squares (including the Plaza de See also:

• COLON
• COLON (formerly known as ASPINWALL)

Colon, with a See also:

• BRONZE

bronze statue of See also:

• COLUMBUS
• COLUMBUS, CHRISTOPHER [in Spanish CRISTOBAL COLON] (c. 1446, or perhaps rather 1451, -15o6)

Columbus given to the city by See also:

• QUEEN
• QUEEN (O.E. cwen, wife, related to "quean," O.E. cwene, a hussy; cf. Gr. yvvi7: from root gan-, to produce; cf. genus, " kin," &c.)

Queen See also:

• ISABEL

Isabel II. and erected in 1862) and substantial business buildings . See also:

• CARDENAS (San Juan de Dios de Cardenas)

Cardenas is one of the See also:

• PRINCIPAL

principal See also:

• SUGAR

sugar-exporting towns of Cuba . The shallowness of the See also:

• HARBOUR (from M.E. hereberge, here, an army; cf. Ger. Heer and -beorg, protection or shelter. Other early forms in English were herberwe and haiborow, as seen in various place names, such as Market Harborough.. The French auberge, an inn, derived through

harbour necessitates lighterage and repeated loading of cargoes . The surrounding region is famed for its fertility . A large quantity of See also:

• ASPHALT, or ASPHALTUM

asphalt has been taken from the See also:

• BED
• BED (a common Teutonic word, cf. German Bett, probably connected with the Indo-European root bhodh, seen in the Lat. fodere, to dig; so " a dug-out place " for safe resting, or in the same sense as a garden " bed ")

bed of the harbour . A flow of fresh See also:

• WATER

water from the bed of the harbour is another See also:

• PECULIAR

peculiar feature; it comes presumably from the outlets of subterranean See also:

• RIVERS
• RIVERS, ANTHONY WOODVILLE, or WYDEVILLE, 2ND EARL (c. 1442—1483)
• RIVERS, EARL
• RIVERS, RICHARD SAVAGE, 4TH EARL (c. 1660—1712)

rivers .

There is a large See also:

• UNITED

United States business See also:

• ELEMENT (Lat. elementum)

element, which has been, indeed, prominent in the city ever since its See also:

• FOUNDATION (Lat. fundatio, from fundare, to found)

foundation . At El Varadero, on a See also:

• PENINSULA
• PENINSULA (Lat. paeninsula, from paene, almost, and insula, an island)

peninsula at the mouth of the bay, there is See also:

• FINE

fine sea-bathing on a long See also:

• BEACH

beach, and El Varadero is a See also:

• WINTER, JOHN STRANGE
• WINTER, PETER (c. 1755-1825)

winter resort . Cardenas was founded in 1828, and in 1861 already had 12,910 inhabitants . In 185o See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

General Narciso See also:

• LOPEZ, CARLOS ANTONIO (1790-1862)

Lopez landed here on a filibustering expedition, and held the town for a few See also:

• HOURS, CANONICAL

hours, abandoning it when he saw that the See also:

• PEOPLE

people would not rise to support him in his efforts to secure Cuban See also:

• INDEPENDENCE
• INDEPENDENCE, DECLARATION OF
• INDEPENDENCE, WAR OF

independence . On the rrth of May 1898 an See also:

• AMERICAN

American See also:

• TORPEDO

torpedo-See also:

• BOAT (0. Eng. bdt; the true etymological connexion with Dutch and Ger. boot, Fr. bateau, Ital. battello presents great difficulties; Celtic forms are from O. Eng.)

boat and See also:

• REVENUE
• REVENUE (0. Fr. revenu, from revenir, to return)

revenue cutter here attacked three See also:

• SPANISH

Spanish See also:

• GUN

gun-boats, and See also:

• ENSIGN (through the Fr. enseigne from the Latin plural insignia)

Ensign See also:

• WORTH
• WORTH, CHARLES FREDERICK (1825-1895)

Worth Bagley (1874–1898) was killed—the first American See also:

• NAVAL

naval officer to lose his See also:

• LIFE

life in the Spanish-American See also:

• WAR
• WAR (O. Eng. werre, Fr. guerre, of Teutonic origin; cf. O.H.G. werran, to confound)

War .