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Film, VideoU.S. troops landing at DaiquirÃ, Cuba
United States troops landing at DaiquirÃ, Cuba | Title in Edison films catalog, no. 105: U.S. troops landing at Baiquiri, Cuba "These are the first U.S. troops to land on Cuban soil, June 22, 1898. The picture shows a long perspective view of the pier at Baiquiri [sic], the point chosen so strategically for the landing of General Shafter's army. At the end of the wharf are the coal dumps and ore elevators used by the mining company operating the famous iron mines at Juragua,...- Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Paley, William Daly - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1898