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Ten Years' War

noun

  1. a popular insurrection in Cuba (1868–78) against Spanish rule.


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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.

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China’s Taiping Rebellion and Cuba’s Ten Years’ War were so deadly they caused population declines.

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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.

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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.

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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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