Narciso Lopez, departs from New Orleans, Louisiana with a private militia of about four-hundred, for the Spanish enclave of Cuba with the intent of securing independence.

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Subsequent Events:

10/8/1853                   1/24/1898                  2/25/1898

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References:

Calvin D. Linton, ed. The Bicentennial Almanac: 200 Years of America, 1776-1976, (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, 1975), 140.

Current U.s. National Debt:

$36,215,701,317,831

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