Ten Years’ War

…revolution failed, Céspedes started the Ten Years’ War (1868–78), which ultimately led to Cuban independence.

It began with the unsuccessful Ten Years’ War (Guerra de los Diez Años; 1868–78) and culminated in the U.S. intervention that ended the Spanish colonial presence in the Americas (see Spanish-American War).

…first war of Cuban independence—the Ten Years’ War (1868–78)—by increasing taxes and refusing to grant Cubans political autonomy. On October 10, 1868, the eastern planter Carlos Manuel de Céspedes, now known as the “father of his country,” issued the Grito de Yara (“Cry of Yara”) decree, in which he declared…

…revolutionary forces in the unsuccessful Ten Years’ War (1868–78) and again in the successful Cuban revolution against Spain some 20 years later.

The war made difficulties for all governments in power in Spain after 1868 and forced abandonment of the most popular of the pledges made by the rebels in 1868: the abolition of the arbitrary and socially selective recruitment system. Like the Carlist wars, the war in…