Military Notes On Puerto Rico
Military Notes On Puerto Rico

Author: United States Adjutant-General's Off

Publisher: Legare Street Press

Published: 2023-07-18

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781020202933

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This detailed report provides an overview of the military history and strategic importance of Puerto Rico, particularly in the context of the Spanish-American War. Drawing on a wide range of sources, including contemporary maps and photographs, this book offers a valuable resource for historians and military enthusiasts. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Military Notes on Puerto Rico (Classic Reprint)
Military Notes on Puerto Rico (Classic Reprint)

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 2015-07-14

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13: 9781331362272

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Excerpt from Military Notes on Puerto Rico The following notes were compiled for the information of the Army, and embody all reliable information available. Many of the books consulted in the preparation are old editions, and therefore errors due to recent changes may be frequent. The notes are intended to supplement the Military Map of Puerto Rieo. The small scale index map will be of use in locating the principal cities and handy for referring to the other charts and plaus attached to these notes. By permission of the Chief Hydrographor, United States Navy, the sailing directions for Mona Passage and the island of Puerto Rico have been reprinted in full and added to theso notes as a supplement. The following books and works were consnlted and matter from them freely used in the preparation of the notes: Gufa Geogriilico Militar de Espana y Provincias Ultramarinas. 1879. Espana, sus Monuuientos y Artes, su Naturalezad Historia, 1887. Compcndio do Geografia Militar de Espana y Portugal, 1882. Anuario de Comercio de Espana, 1S96. Auuario Militar de Espana, 1898. Reclus, Nouvelle Geographic Universelle, 1891. Advance Sheets American Consular Reports, 1898. An Account of the Present State of the Island of Puerto Rico, 1834. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Military Notes on Puerto Rico
Military Notes on Puerto Rico

Author: Anonymous

Publisher:

Published: 2017-11-07

Total Pages: 152

ISBN-13: 9783337380434

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Military Notes on Puerto Rico - Vol. 1 is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1898. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.

Military Power and Popular Protest
Military Power and Popular Protest

Author: Katherine T. McCaffrey

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 9780813530918

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Katherine T. McCaffrey gives a complete analysis of the troubled relationship between the U.S. Navy and island residents. She explores such topics as the history of U.S. naval involvement in Vieques; a grassroots mobilization-led by fishermen-that began in the 1970s; how the navy promised to improve the lives of the island residents-and failed; and the present-day emergence of a revitalized political activism that has effectively challenged naval hegemony.

War Against All Puerto Ricans
War Against All Puerto Ricans

Author: Nelson A Denis

Publisher: Bold Type Books

Published: 2015-04-07

Total Pages: 402

ISBN-13: 1568585020

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The powerful, untold story of the 1950 revolution in Puerto Rico and the long history of U.S. intervention on the island, that the New York Times says "could not be more timely." In 1950, after over fifty years of military occupation and colonial rule, the Nationalist Party of Puerto Rico staged an unsuccessful armed insurrection against the United States. Violence swept through the island: assassins were sent to kill President Harry Truman, gunfights roared in eight towns, police stations and post offices were burned down. In order to suppress this uprising, the US Army deployed thousands of troops and bombarded two towns, marking the first time in history that the US government bombed its own citizens. Nelson A. Denis tells this powerful story through the controversial life of Pedro Albizu Campos, who served as the president of the Nationalist Party. A lawyer, chemical engineer, and the first Puerto Rican to graduate from Harvard Law School, Albizu Campos was imprisoned for twenty-five years and died under mysterious circumstances. By tracing his life and death, Denis shows how the journey of Albizu Campos is part of a larger story of Puerto Rico and US colonialism. Through oral histories, personal interviews, eyewitness accounts, congressional testimony, and recently declassified FBI files, War Against All Puerto Ricans tells the story of a forgotten revolution and its context in Puerto Rico's history, from the US invasion in 1898 to the modern-day struggle for self-determination. Denis provides an unflinching account of the gunfights, prison riots, political intrigue, FBI and CIA covert activity, and mass hysteria that accompanied this tumultuous period in Puerto Rican history.

Island at War
Island at War

Author: Jorge Rodriguez Beruff

Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi

Published: 2015-05-01

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 1626740879

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Despite Puerto Rico being the hub of the United States’s naval response to the German blockade of the Caribbean, there is very little published scholarship on the island’s heavy involvement in the global conflict of World War II. Recently, a new generation of scholars has been compiling interdisciplinary research with fresh insights about the profound wartime changes, which in turn generated conditions for the rapid economic, social, and political development of postwar Puerto Rico. The island's subsequent transformation cannot be adequately grasped without tracing its roots to the war years. Island at War brings together outstanding new research on Puerto Rico and makes it accessible in English. It covers ten distinct topics written by nine distinguished scholars from the Caribbean and beyond. Contributors include experts in the fields of history, political science, sociology, literature, journalism, communications, and engineering. Topics include US strategic debate and war planning for the Caribbean on the eve of World War II, Puerto Rico as the headquarters of the Caribbean Sea frontier, war and political transition in Puerto Rico, the war economy of Puerto Rico, the German blockade of the Caribbean in 1942, and the story of a Puerto Rican officer in the Second World War and Korea. With these essays and others, Island at War represents the cutting edge of scholarship on the role of Puerto Rico and the Caribbean in World War II and its aftermath.

The History of Puerto Rico
The History of Puerto Rico

Author: Rudolph Adams Van Middeldyk

Publisher:

Published: 1903

Total Pages: 382

ISBN-13:

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Van Middledyk's work was the first major historical study of Puerto Rico in English. Van Middledyk advanced Puerto Rican historiography by building on the works of Brau, Coll y Toste, and Acosta, and by consulting early Spanish chronicles. A librarian at the Free Public Library of San Juan, Van Middledyk possessed knowledge of and access to considerable primary source material. His history is sympathetic to the Indians and highly critical of Spanish colonial administration. Coming in the wake of American military occupation, the book sought to explain and justify control of the island by the United States.