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    several years later. Not long thereafter, Ovando founded Santa Maria del Puerto. The latter was first burned by French explorers in 1535, then again in...
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    called Santa María del Puerto del Príncipe; between 1747 and 1753 Luis de Unzaga y Amézaga, then captain governor of Puerto del Príncipe, rehabilitated the...
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  • the history of the city of Camagüey, Cuba. 1528 - Santa María del Puerto Príncipe established by settlers relocating from Caonao, and previously from...
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    districts in each province. It was later established in the provinces of Puerto Príncipe, Santa Clara, Pinar del Rio, and La Habana, where a chief of the Rural...
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    oversight of judicial affairs until the establishment of new audiencias in Puerto Príncipe (1800) and Havana (1838). In 1825, as a result of the loss of the mainland...
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    Santa María de Puerto Príncipe, which was often referred to simply as Puerto Príncipe and which is now known as Camagüey. Puerto Príncipe was a provincial...
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    Republic of Cuba twice. Salvador Cisneros y Betancourt was born in Puerto Príncipe (now Camagüey), Spanish Cuba on February 10, 1828. Born into a noble...
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    and were transporting them on the ship to their plantations near Puerto Príncipe (modern Camagüey, Cuba). The revolt began after the schooner's cook...
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    Henry Morgan's raid on Puerto del Príncipe was a military event which took place during the latter stage of the Anglo-Spanish War between March and April...
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    Joaquín de Agüero (15 November 1816, Puerto Príncipe – 12 August 1851, Puerto Príncipe) was a Cuban revolutionary. In 1843 he freed all his slaves. In...
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