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<ref>[http://www.historyofcuba.com/history/funfacts/slavery.htm  Abolition of Slavery - History of Cuba]</ref>

<ref>[http://www.historyofcuba.com/history/funfacts/slavery.htm  Abolition of Slavery - History of Cuba]</ref>

By 1895 it took 200,000 Spanish soldiers to suppress the Cuban independence movement.  Americans were shocked at how Spain sent tens of thousands of Cubans to concentration camps, where many died of starvation or disease.   

By 1895 it took 200,000 Spanish soldiers to suppress the Cuban independence movement.  Americans were shocked at how Spain sent tens of thousands of Cubans to concentration camps, where many died of starvation or disease.  However, publisher [[William Randoph Hearst]] fabricated a great number of these attrocities in an attempt to sell newspapers.  When painter [[Frederic Reminton]] wrote Hearst that 'there is no trouble (in Cuba) and there will be no war,' Hearst famously replied 'You furnish the pictures, I'll furnish the war.'  <ref>Sifakis, Car.  ''The Big Book of Hoaxes''.  New York:  Paradox Press, 1996.

Pressure grew in the United States for President William McKinley to intervene, and when the U.S.S. Maine mysteriously blew up in Havana Harbor on February 15, 1898 (probably due to an accidental explosure), President McKinley approved this Resolution of Congress:  

Pressure grew in the United States for President William McKinley to intervene, and when the U.S.S. Maine mysteriously blew up in Havana Harbor on February 15, 1898 (probably due to an accidental explosure), President McKinley approved this Resolution of Congress: