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Battle of Cienfuegos
The Battle of Cienfuegos, or the Raid on Cienfuegos, was an engagement of the Spanish–American War, intended by the United States Navy to tighten its blockade of Cuba.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.historynet.com/spanish-american-war-raid-on-cienfuegos.htm )〕
==Background==
The Spanish were using undersea cables as a means to communicate with not only the rest of Cuba, but also the Spanish command. These cables had many key junctions, namely, a shore near Cienfuegos. The cables connected to Havana, the port of Santiago, and then branched off to other Caribbean islands such as Jamaica. The cables were run out from an easily located house which contained a critical hub for the undersea cable system. While the house could easily be destroyed, this would only inflict largely superficial damage, and could easily be repaired and functioning in a short period of time. Therefore, command decided to grapple the three cables out of the sea and cut them in several places, disrupting much of the communications between the Spanish and their operations in Cuba. This damage would be much more difficult to repair, as the cables were nearing two inches in diameter which made cutting, and by extension repairing them, a difficult task. For the mission, the cruiser USS ''Marblehead'', the gunboat USS ''Nashville'', and the revenue cutter USS ''Windom''〔Nofi, A.A., 1996, ''The Spanish–American War, 1898'', Pennsylvania: Combined Books, ISBN 0938289578〕 were dispatched under the command of Captain Bowman H. McCalla to sever them.〔
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