La última invasión armada. Los contingentes militares españoles a las guerras de Cuba, siglo XIX

Abstract

The prolongation of the Spanish colonial regime in Cuba and Puerto Rico throughout the nineteenth century was very costly for Spain, while the politicians responsible for Spain's colonialism and peninsular Spaniards that profited from trade with the captive overseas markets did not always pay the price. The cost of maintaining the colonial system was passed on to the Spanish people, for example, in the recruitment of half a million soldiers employed in the two Cuban wars. This article quantifies the flow of Spanish soldiers deployed in Cuba, and the protagonism of the Transatlantic Navigation Company in the maintenance of Spanish colonialism in Cuba.