Here Come the Yankees! The Rise and Decline of United States Colonies in Cuba, 1898–1930
Just after noon onJanuary 4, I900, the ancient city of Nuevitas, Cuba, lazily basking in the midday sunshine, witnessed a sight which had not been paralleled in the four hundred years of its existence. A steamer was dropping anchor in the placid water of the harbor a mile off shore, and her decks were thronged with a crowd of more than two hundred eager and active Americans. They wore no uniforms, nor did they carry either guns or swords; and yet they had come on an errand of conquest.... It was the vanguard of the first American colony planted in Cuba.