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Cuban Battlefields of the Spanish-Cuban-American War

El Morro views

El Morro views

Date: March 9-15, 2005

Description: The interior battlements of El Morro. The fortification had few modern guns in 1898 and posed no real threat to the American battleships. It was, however, an imposing structure that guarded the entrance to Santiago Bay for several centuries