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Nelson Denis • War Against All Puerto Ricans: Revolution and Terror in America's Colony
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By 1877 the company had become a behemoth that had far outgrown its Cleveland roots. Rockefeller and Flagler determined to move their operations to the burgeoning city of New York, where the company’s far-flung holdings could more easily be managed and where other titans such as railroad builder Cornelius Vanderbilt, fur mogul William B. Astor, and
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In contrast to his other terminal destinations, Key West was no undiscovered hamlet. With more than twenty thousand residents, it was the largest city in Florida at the time, and had been for more than fifty years. In the 1850s, U.S. Senator Stephen S. Mallory had dubbed it “America’s Gibraltar,” referring to its strategic location at the mouth of
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