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Despatches from United States consuls in Havana, 1783-1906

Reports to the United States Department of State from its diplomatic representatives stationed in Havana, Cuba. Includes notes, correspondence, clippings, and other materials exchanged with foreign officials. Also includes correspondence from various sources, such as other consuls, local officials, private citizens or U.S. naval commanders stationed in foreign waters. This collection covers a period of Cuban, European, and U.S. foreign relations spanning the end of the British occupation with the Treaty of Paris in 1783 when Havana was the third largest city in the Americas (larger than New York), to the rapid expansion of trade with the U.S. in the late 18th century, running through the independence wars, the Spanish-American War with subsequent imposition of the Platt Amendment and the U.S. intervention of 1906.

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