
Haiti, Smedley Butler, and the Rise of American Empire
Deconstructed
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A 16 Year Old Boy Thinks That the Spanish Are Blowing Up the Ship
A 16-year-old butler from the haverford school was sent to fight in Cuba. The cuban revolutionary fighters are called mambises, and a lot of them have been fighting for 30 years. As part of a compromise, a clause gets written into the declaration of war that basically says that the united states won't annexa as a colony,. But we kind of do it in a facto way. We also betray the philippinos by colonizing them outright.
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