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Ten Years' War
noun
- a popular insurrection in Cuba (1868–78) against Spanish rule.
Example Sentences
The cerebral cortex, impenetrable and wild, was a “terrifying jungle,” as intimidating as the one in Cuba, where he had fought in the Ten Years’ War.
China’s Taiping Rebellion and Cuba’s Ten Years’ War were so deadly they caused population declines.
Baseball arrived on the island by sea in the 1860s, via Cubans fleeing the Ten Years’ War, according to “The Tropic of Baseball: Baseball in the Dominican Republic” by Rob L. Ruck.
After all, it was during the Iraq-Afghan ten years war that Moscow re-expanded leverage over its former Empire and China grew into a global economic giant.
At the beginning of the contest which in Europe was the Seven Years' War, but in America a ten years' war, Franklin's pen and pencil were both employed in urging a cordial union of the colonies against the foe.
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