Old Painting Sheds New Light On Key West’s Role In History

Twenty-five years before the Spanish-American War, the two countries bristled at each other across the Florida Straits, with a show of American Naval force assembled in Key West. The Virginius Affair centered around the 1873 capture of an American ship that was helping Cuban rebels during the Ten Years War, an unsuccessful attempt to throw off Spanish rule from the island.

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