The Cigar Rollers Who Paid for Cuba's War
19th Century

The Cigar Rollers Who Paid for Cuba's War

Cuban exiles in Tampa, Florida pledged a slice of every week's wages to a revolution in 1895, and that steady trickle of dimes bought a war.

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