This was not true of the Escario relief column from Manzanillo
This was not true of the Escario relief column from Manzanillo
both were rushed into service
reconcentration
He was a former Cuban Governor and Spanish Army General known as The Butcher who was a master of the reconcentration camps to quell revolts.
General Valeriano Weyler of the Spanish Army.
He put down revolts and ended revolutions. He used reconcentration camps as a primary tool and by 1898 one fourth of all Cubans had been forcibly placed in such camps where starvation took thousands of lives.
General Valeriano Weyler
reconcentration
He was a former Cuban Governor and Spanish Army General known as The Butcher who was a master of the reconcentration camps to quell revolts.
General Valeriano Weyler of the Spanish Army.
He put down revolts and ended revolutions. He used reconcentration camps as a primary tool and by 1898 one fourth of all Cubans had been forcibly placed in such camps where starvation took thousands of lives.
General V. Weyler was known as The Butcher during the Spanish-American War
General Valeriano Weyler
General Valeriano Weyler attempted to suppress the Cuban rebellion backfire was to restore order.
general V. Weyler
General Valeriano Weyler
The first concentration camps were not in Europe, for that one must go back to 1898 in Cuba. One Spanish general, Valeriano Weyler, adopted a policy of reconcentration of the civilian population in detention camps, but this measure backfired when it aroused international concern, notably in the United States.
weyler
General V. Weyler was called The Butcher.