Message #67611

[Bianca]

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In 1511, Diego Velásquez sailed from Hispaniola (now the Dominican Republic) to
conquer and colonize Cuba.

Among his soldiers in that expedition was Hernán Cortés, who later conquered Mexico.

When he arrived in Cuba, Velásquez founded the island’s first Spanish settlement at Baracoa.


Meanwhile, reports from the Indians of Hispaniola reached Cuba. Hatuey, a Taíno chief,
had escaped in canoes with about four-hundred men, women and children, to warn the
Cubans about what to expect from the Spaniards. He explained the need to join against
their common enemy, the white men who had inflicted so much suffering on his people.


Go to this page to read more about the heroisme of <a href="http://www.historyofcuba.com/history/sidebar3.htm"target=new window">Hatuey</a>
and when you click on the year 1511 on the bottum of the page, you wil go to a timetable
where you can read the history of Cuba.