Ten Years' War

...the world. We hold an awesome power and responsibility as leaders of the free world. Obama has had less than a year, FDR took 4 terms, 10 years, and a World War to overcome the effects of the depression. Lets hold judgment until more time...

In this article: Barack Hussein Obama, George W. Bush, Karl Marx, United States, Meals on Wheels, and Paul Harvey

...top-ranked Buckeyes in Ann Arbor, Mich. One of those teams claimed the conference crown every year for the next decade, starting The Ten Year War. The two also shared the Big Ten title six times during that span. The Big Ten's...

In this article: Big Ten, Pat Fitzgerald, Illinois, Michigan, Ohio State, Wisconsin, and Wolverines

...policies amid the crash in the late '20s and early '30s allowed the economy to go into the Great Depression, which was so deep it took 10 years and a world war to get us out of it completely. Franklin Roosevelt's policies were best at...

In this article: George H.W. Bush, Herbert Hoover, Bill Clinton, Tax, Franklin Roosevelt, Ronald Reagan, and 10 Years War

...elan was gone. The provisional government convinced Maceo to give up, thus ending the war in May 28, 1878. Many of the graduates of Ten Year War, however, became central players in Cuba's war of independence started in 1895. These...

In this article: Ignacio Agramonte, Cuba, Spain, Bayamo, Sugar, and Thomas Jordan

...in Africa and Latin America where it had supported Marxist governments and rebels who were opposed to allies of the United States. The Ten Years' War was the first of three wars that Cuba fought against Spain for its independence. The Ten...

In this article: Cuba, Fidel Castro, Che Guevara, United States, Unita, National Liberation Army, The Cuban Missile Crisis, Bay of Pigs Invasion, and Congo Crisis

...Lorenzo, Oriente) was a Cuban planter who freed his slaves, and made the declaration of Cuban independence in 1868 which started the Ten Years' War. Cespedes was a landowner and lawyer in Eastern Cuba, near Bayamo, who purchased La Demajagua,...

In this article: Cuba, Bayamo, Tobacco, and Spain

...will NEVER win this war. This is not your grandad's war anymore. The best toys will never win it. WE count on in and out and at most a 10 year war. These people can fight a war for Generations--as long as they sporadically fight--the war is...

In this article: George Bush Sr, Afghanistan, Dick Cheney, Taliban, CIA, United States, Al Qaeda, and Iraq

Vladimir Putin, the Russian prime minister, was quietly basking in the triumph of victory on Thursday after the Kremlin formally announced the end of its decade-long war against rebels in Chechnya. By Adrian Blomfield in Moscow Last...

In this article: Ramzan Kadyrov, Chechnya, Dmitry Medvedev, Boris Yeltsin, Vladimir Putin, 10 Year War, Dubai, and Moscow

The Little War or Small War (), (1879-1880) was the second of three conflicts in the Cuban War of Independence. It followed the Ten Years' War of 1868-1878 and preceded the War of '95, itself sometimes called the Cuban War of Independence,...

In this article: Little War, Cuba, Calixto Garcia, and Cortes Generales

...anchored at the Matanzas's harbor for repairs. However, the team did not have much time to celebrate this exploit and actually had to go underground because the Ten Years' War broke out and the Spanish colonial authorities outlawed the game.

In this article: Nemisio Guillo, Matanzas, Mobile, Alabama, and Cuba