Ajay Rai Block 4

The Revolutionary flag of Lares"The first Puerto Rican Flag" used in the

unsuccessful Grito de Lares (Lares Uprising

Important People

• Gen. Nelson Appleton Miles – led invasion of Puerto Rico with 26,000 US soilders

• U.S. General John R. Brooke became military governor

• US Navy Captain Alfred T. Mahan became the leading strategist and advisor to his government

• Formal war plan was developed by Lieutenant William W. Kimball, focusing on Cuba and Puerto Rico

PoliticalCartoon:

What Americans viewed they were doing

Quotes

• John M. Palmer said imperialism, “undermined democracy at home and abroad and violated the fundamental principles upon which America had been founded."

• American Anti-Imperialist League stated “We hold that the policy known as imperialism is hostile to liberty … an evil from which it has been our glory to be free.”