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world are situated in the vicinity, including the Soledad (with a botanical experiment station maintained by Harvard University), the Terry and others—most of them connected with the city by See also:

GOOD, JOHN MASON (1764-1827)

good drive-ways. Cienfuegos is a centre of the sugar See also:

trade on the south coast; See also:

TOBACCO

tobacco too is exported. The bay of Jagua was visited by See also:

Columbus. The city was founded in 1819, with the aid of the See also:

SPANISH

Spanish government, by a Louisianian, General Luis de Clouet; it was destroyed by a See also:

HURRICANE

hurricane and was rebuilt in 1825. Many naturalized See also:

FOREIGN

foreign Catholics, including Americans, were among the See also:

ORIGINAL

original settlers. The See also:

settlement was first named in See also:

HONOUR (Lat. honos or lwnor, honoris; in English the word was spelled with or without the u indifferently until the 17th century, but during the 18th century it became fashion-able to spell the word " honor "; Johnson's and Webster's Dictionaries stereoty

honour of See also:

Ferdinand VII., and later in honour of Captain-General Jose Cienfuegos See also:

JOVELLANOS (or JovE LLANOS), GASPAR MELCHOR DE (1744-1811)

Jovellanos. The See also:

HARBOUR (from M.E. hereberge, here, an army; cf. Ger. Heer and -beorg, protection or shelter. Other early forms in English were herberwe and haiborow, as seen in various place names, such as Market Harborough.. The French auberge, an inn, derived through

harbour was known from the earliest times, and has been declared by See also:

MAHAN, ALFRED THAYER (1840- )

Mahan to be the most important of the Caribbean Sea for strategic purposes. In 1740–1745 a fortification called Nuestra Senora de los Angeles was erected at the entrance; it is still See also:

STANDING

standing, on a steep See also:

BLUFF (a word of uncertain origin; possibly connected with an obsolete Dutch word, blaf, broad)

bluff overlooking the sea, and is one of the most picturesque of the old fortifications of the See also:

ISLAND (O.E. ieg =isle, +land')

island. On the 11th of May 1898 a force from two vessels of the United States See also:

FLEET

fleet under See also:

ADMIRAL

Admiral See also:

SCHLEY, WINFIELD SCOTT (1839-1911)

Schley, searching for See also:

CERVERA, PASCUAL CERVERA Y TOPETE (1839-1909)

Cervera and blockading the See also:

PORT

port, cut two of the three cables here (at Point See also:

COLORADO

Colorado, at the entrance of the harbour), and for the first See also:

time in the Spanish-See also:

AMERICAN

American See also:

War the American troops were under See also:

FIRE (in O. Eng. f j'r; the word is common to West German languages, cf. Dutch vuur, Ger. Feuer; the pre-Teutonic form is seen in Sanskrit pu, pavaka, and Gr. irup; the ultimate origin is usually taken to be a root meaning to purify, cf. Lat. purus)

fire.

End of Article: CIENFUEGOS (originally FERNANDINA DE JAGUA)

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