Word: fuerza
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Dates: during 1933-1933
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Secretary of War Ferrer hastened to Army general staff headquarters at Castillo de la Fuerza. The enlisted men in command there listened to his pleas to "observe discipline," sent him home downcast...
...uphold Machado, or depose him. Early Friday afternoon, Battalion No. 1 of the Cabana Fortress was first to train its guns upon the $2,000,000 Presidential Palace of Carrara marble, decorated by Manhattan's Tiffany Studios. The guns did not fire, but soon Castillo de la Real Fuerza and all other Havana garrisons aimed their guns at the Palace's dome of yellow glazed tile. Subordinate officers told sly, grandfatherly little War Minister General Alberto Herrera that he must tell President Machado to resign. When the War Minister refused he was arrested, forced to promise...