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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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  • former chief of the Cuban Rural Guard of Puerto Príncipe. Braulio Peña de la Cruz was born in Puerto Príncipe (now Camagüey), Spanish Cuba on March 26...
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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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    bandits operating in the area. Upon the organization of the guard in the Puerto Príncipe district on January 1, 1899, Military Commander Louis H. Carpenter...
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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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    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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  • the town of Camagüey (formerly Puerto Príncipe) in Cuba. Tomás Pío Betancourt y Sánchez-Pereira was born in Puerto Príncipe (now Camagüey), Spanish Cuba...
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    fraud and bribery. Evangelina Cosio was born on September 23, 1877, in Puerto Príncipe, Cuba. She was the daughter of Augustin Cosio, who was an active participant...
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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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