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	The Taino Longhouse -> El Caney del Quinto Mundo
		Whenever possible, the herbs and clay used in her healing practice are harvested from the land of El Caney.
		El Caney endeavors to provide accurate, positive historical, traditional and contemporary insight about the culture, language, spiritual traditions and contributions of Taíno people, the indigenous people of the Caribbean.
		The Caney grounds are available to organizations, groups and individuals for special events and activities that are in keeping with the principles of El Caney.
	www.prtc.net /~caney/caney.htm (1407 words)

	Battle of El Caney - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Battle of El Caney was fought on July 1, 1898, during the Spanish-American War.
		At El Caney, 500 Spanish soldiers under General Joaquín Vara del Rey were instructed to hold the northwest flank of Santiago against an American advance.
		Despite having no machine guns or artillery and being denied promised reinforcements, Vara del Rey and his soldiers held over eight thousand Americans from their position for nearly twelve hours, preventing them from sweeping through and overwhelming the defenders of San Juan Hill.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_El_Caney (238 words)

	Reporting America at War . Richard Harding Davis . The Battle of San Juan Hill \| PBS
		For four days before the American soldiers captured the same rifle-pits at El Caney and San Juan, with a loss of two thousand men, they watched these men diligently preparing for their coming, and wondered why there was no order to embarrass or to end these preparations.
		El Caney lay half-way along the right prong, the left one was the trail down which, in the morning, the troops were to be hurled upon San Juan.
		El Caney had not yet thrown off her blanket of mist before Capron's battery opened on it from a ridge two miles in the rear.
	www.pbs.org /weta/reportingamericaatwar/reporters/davis/sanjuan.html (4109 words)

	Battle of El Caney
		In the path of Caney to Guantánamo is located the brigade Chafee; behind, the brigade Ludlow; to the left the battery of the Captain Capron; two kilometers north of Marianaje the brigade Miles and behind, to east of El Pozo, in the reservation, the Bats brigade.
		The plaza of El Caney is a highway crossroads with a rectangle form.
		The Spanish troops were 419 soldiers belonging to the regiment "Constitución"; 40, of the regiment "Cuba" and 90 of the regiment "Asia".
	candamo.iespana.es /1898/ingles/itierra2.htm (700 words)

	Latin Beat Magazine: El Conjunto Caney - grupo musical Cubano de Nueva York dirigido por Fernando Storch en los años ...
		Caney was dressed in a gray shark-skin suit, blue sports shirt and a yellow fisherman's cap which covered most of his cotton white hair.
		Caney is one example of how a musician lives when he is compelled into semi-retirement for lack of work.
		Before 1930 ended, Caney was directing a sextet, Los Echos de Cuba, and kept the group intact for three years until he met a transplanted Cuban from Tampa named Elio Osakar, one of very few musicians whose bass instrument was slowly replacing the marimboola.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0FXV/is_n6_v7/ai_19692562 (1639 words)

	SANTIAGO - LoveToKnow Article on SANTIAGO (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		On a hill overlooking the city is a beautiful school-house of native l:mestone, erected by the American military government as a model for the rest of the island.
		Santiago is the hottest city of Cuba (mean temperature in winter about 82 F., in summer about 88), owing mainly to the mountains that shut off the breezes from the E. There is superb mountain scenery on the roads to El Caney and San Luis (pop.
		Monuments commemorate the actions at El Caney and San Juan Hill.
	www.35.1911encyclopedia.org /S/SA/SANTIAGO.htm (1254 words)

	El Caney - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		El Caney (also Caney) is a small village 4 miles (6.4 km) to the northeast of Santiago, Cuba.
		Chiefly known in centuries past as the site where Hernán Cortés received a vision supposedly ordering him to Christianize Mexico, the town was host to the Battle of El Caney on July 1, 1898.
		This page was last modified 00:02, 28 March 2006.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/El_Caney (88 words)

	THE DEATH OF VARA DEL REY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		El Caney was taken July 1, 1898 the same day the successful attack on the San Juan Hills was carried out.
		El Caney means long house or chief’s house in the old Cuban “Indian” language Taino (Guanikeyu, 1997).
		El Viso means the prospect, a military term for an elevated spot affording an extensive view (Velazquez 1974), which is often referred to in contemporary U.S. accounts as the “high stone strong place,” the common photograph shows a breached wall revealing a cannon.
	www.autentico.org /oa09314.php (2989 words)

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		All of the regiments engaged in the battle of El Caney had not reached their positions when the battle was precipitated by the artillery firing on the block-house.
		After the battles of El Caney and San Juan Hill, many wounded American soldiers who were able to travel were given furloughs to their respective homes in the United States, and Lieutenant Thomas Roberts, of this city, was one of them.
		The blockhouse was captured, the enemy fled and we went into El Caney." In another group a trooper from an Illinois regiment was explaining the character of the country and the effect of the daily rains upon the troops.
	www.gutenberg.org /files/11102/11102.txt (17195 words)

	FIFTH CORPS, U
		The Fifth Corps landed at Daiquiri and Siboney, Cuba, beginning 22 June, and subsequently fought in the Battles of Las Guásimas (24 June), El Caney (1 July), Kettle Hill (1 July), and San Juan Hill (1 July) and received the capitulation of Santiago, Cuba, on 17 July.
		Consisting of 21 officers and 464 enlisted men, the regiment fought in the Battle of El Caney on 1 July 1898, sustaining casualties of two dead and three wounded.
		William R. Shafter, El Caney was to be attacked and taken within two hours by the 6,653-man Second Division under the command of Brig.
	www.pipesfamily.com /ashelpipes.htm (1610 words)

	"A Perfect Hailstorm of Bullets": A Black Sergeant Remembers the Battle of San Juan Hill in 1899
		Brigadier Generals, Colonels, Lieutenant-Colonels, Majors, etc., were not needed at the time the 25th Infantry made the charge on El Caney, and those officers simply watched the battle from convenient points, as Lieutenants and enlisted men made the charge alone.
		Private T. Butler, Company H, 25th Infantry, was the first man to enter the blockhouse at El Caney, and took possession of the Spanish flag for his regiment.
		An officer of the 12th Infantry came up while Butler was in the house and ordered him to give up the flag, which he was compelled to do, but not until he had torn a piece off the flag to substantiate his report to his Colonel of the injustice which had been done to him.
	historymatters.gmu.edu /d/100 (746 words)

	The Assault on San Juan Hill (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		William R. Shafter, commander of the V Corps, had ridden up to El Pozo to survey the heights around Santiago de Cuba and El Caney.
		Because reinforcements could move down the road from El Caney and threaten Shafter's right flank, he proposed that Lawton capture the town.
		After he heard firing on El Caney for an hour, McClernand turned and gave Grimes permission to open his own cannonade, and clouds of white smoke billowed from the howitzers.
	www.thehistorynet.com /mh/blsanjuanhill (1516 words)

	The Battles at El Caney and San Juan Hills
		To prevent the enemy from sending reinforcements to San Juan Hill from their garrison at El Caney to the North, General Lawton would march his infantry to capture the city, then pull back to reinforce General Sumner's cavalry on the north end of the heights.
		Once Lawton's men took El Caney, they would move back to join the right flank of the main assault force of some 8,000 soldiers on the primary objective of the day, the battle for San Juan Hill.
		At El Caney, General Lawton found he had underestimated the resistance his own soldiers were facing.
	www.homeofheroes.com /wallofhonor/spanish_am/10_sanjuan.html (3184 words)

	1898 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Meanwhile at El Caney, the Second Battalion of the 22nd Infantry, under the command of Captain B. Lockwood, was located to the extreme left of General Ludlow's line.
		The most frustrating aspect about the failure of artillery support was the fact that the gun batteries were unable to cover the infantry assaults on the San Juan heights and El Caney adequately........
		During the early morning march to El Caney, the troops had been ordered to stack their haversacks and blanket rolls at different locations along the road.
	www.hood.army.mil /4ID_1-22in/Pages/1898.htm (3970 words)

	The Army Medical Department 1865-1917: Supporting the Invasion Forces
		The ultimate destination of U.S. wounded after the battles at El Caney and San Juan Hill was a base hospital that Major LaGarde had finally been able to set up at Siboney, principally in the tents of his reserve division hospital.
		The growing number of casualties at Siboney in the wake of El Caney and San Juan Hill led Pope to begin considering the feasibility of using transports to return some sick and wounded to the United States.
		For five days after the engagements at El Caney and San Juan Hill, the staff at the Siboney base hospital worked with little opportunity for rest, although most patients required only the redressing of their wounds.
	history.amedd.army.mil /booksdocs/spanam/gillet3/ch6.html (14574 words)

	Spanish American War: San Juan Hill
		At the end of the trail the Spanish were dug in on the crest of San Juan Ridge and in the village of El Caney.
		The American plan developed by General Shafter, called for an assault first on El Caney by 5400 Americans, then once it was captured the whole American army would then swarm up the San Juan Hills.
		Unfortunately when the American forces advanced on El Caney before dawn on July 1 the actual assault did not develop as planned.
	www.multied.com /spanish/sanjuan_hill.html (220 words)

	NARA - Prologue - Prologue: Selected Articles
		Henry W. Lawton's Second Infantry Division to take the village of El Caney on the right flank by way of the road to Guantanamo, which he claimed was possible in two hours.
		The Battle of Santiago began early in the morning of July 1 with Lawton attacking El Caney, but his force of sixty-six hundred men met heavy resistance from the five hundred Spaniards garrisoned at the village.
		With Lawton bogged down in El Caney, the First Cavalry Division and First Infantry Division with about eight thousand men would have to attack the defenses of San Juan Heights without the planned infantry support.
	www.archives.gov /publications/prologue/1998/spring/roosevelt-and-medal-of-honor-2.html?template=print (1740 words)

	rec.guns FAQ: III.D.2.a.10.a. Krag .30-40 Shooting Report
		July 1, 1898 - the Spanish soldiers defending the small stone fort at El Caney are well-entrenched, but I've lucked into a good vantage point where I can spot one now and again along the walls.
		I have no idea if the fight at El Caney was anything like that, but that's how it went for me, reliving it on a pleasant Wednesday afternoon, on the BGC rifle range with my Krag.
		Want to shoot a round or two?" Almost always, the young person DOES, and pretty soon they, too, are back at El Caney, or Kettle Hill or somewhere, "civilizin' 'em with a Krag"....
	www.public.asu.edu /~roblewis/SMLE/IIID2a10a.htm (983 words)

	North Atlantic & Caribbean Forts
		Castillo de los Tres Del Morro (aka El Morro Castle) is a large triangular-shaped fortress at the north entrance to Canal del Puerto at Straights of Florida.
		El Torreon (The Fortress by the Bay) (aka Fuerte del Cogímar) is in Cojimar, six kilometers east of Havana.
		El Presidio de la Plaza de la Habana was in existence around 1700.
	www.geocities.com /naforts/atlantic.html (1904 words)

	El Caney
		the city towards the East and Northeast, that is, El Caney, defended by General Vara
		The attack of the Americans was made by 12,000 men, according to their own statements, and was directed by General Wheeler, second in Command of the army.
		The houses of El Caney, transformed by General Vara and his 520 men into fortresses,
	www.spanamwar.com /Elcaneysp.htm (609 words)

	The Gatlings at Santiago
		Reconnaissance had developed the fact that the enemy occupied the village of El Caney, and that their first line of works surrounded the city of Santiago at a distance of about a mile, crowning a semicircular ridge.
		Midway between El Caney and the Spanish position was a large handsome mansion, called the Du Cuorot house, standing in the midst of a large plantation and owned by a Frenchman, which both sides had agreed to respect as neutral property.
		It was expected that Lawton would capture El Caney about eight or nine o'clock in the morning, and pursue the retreating enemy, by the way of the Du Cuorot house, toward Santiago.
	www.9thcavalry.com /gatlings.htm (18921 words)

	americas.org - Five Killed in Saravena (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		On July 22, two men in civilian clothing entered the Estadero El Caney restaurant/bar in the San Luis neighborhood of Saravena in the eastern Colombian department of Arauca, and without saying a word shot to death Gerson Silva Delgado, Henry Bautista Gonzalez and Claudio Torres Reyes, who were all employed by the Giraldo dairy factory.
		One of the young men killed at Estadero El Caney, Uriel Ortiz Coronado, had filed a formal complaint about human rights violations with a Saravena municipal human rights office on June 3 of this year.
		In the complaint, Ortiz described a May 31 incident in which Saravena police detained him and another man arbitrarily, insulting them, making references to their membership in labor unions, and specifically accusing Ortiz of being a “unionist bastard” and “guerrilla” who had they said had handed out water during strikes.
	www.americas.org /item_8466 (430 words)

	Rough Riders
		The plan was to march along the jungle roads to the northwest, and lay siege to the city of Santiago.
		The US force split into two parts, with half moving towards El Caney and half moving towards San Juan Hill (El Caney is north of the map area, on the road from Marianage).
		The US force took El Caney after an all-day battle with the 500 Spanish entrenched there.
	members.tripod.com /SimulationsWorkshop/rough.html (1640 words)

	Spanish-American (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		The sharpshooters could not be seen, however, their fire was devastatingly accurate." Because of the two-mile range of the high-powered Mausers, the American artillery was useless at close distances against the Spanish defenses.
		General Lawton was assigned to take El Caney, which was defended by about 500 Spaniards, and Maj. Gen.
		The attack on E1 Caney made little headway at first against determined Spanish resistance, but success was finally achieved after the supporting artillery was moved forward to positions where it could place effective fire on the enemy.
	www.22ndinfantry.org /spanishamerican.htm (6622 words)

	Paso Fino Horses on PasoPedigree.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Tomas Mejia, is the owner of el Criadero El Caney, also a national and international judge.
		El Caney is a farm dedicated to the breeding of Paso horses (diagonals and lateral movements), with 30 years of experience.
		El Caney is located 30 minutes from Manizales-Colombia, it is also a hotel were guests can ride an excellent Paso Fino, enjoy a great tropical weather without worrying about your security, great rooms, and swimming pool.
	www.pasopedigree.com /Articles/TomasMejia.asp (747 words)

	Buffalo Soldiers at San Juan Hill
		There were two major battles that day, one at El Caney and one on San Juan Heights.
		Both objectives were east of the city, with El Caney the more northerly of the two.
		Roosevelt, of whom it was said that he never attended a wedding without wishing he was the bride or a funeral without wishing he was the corpse, was the unquestioned star of San Juan and by extension of the entire Cuban campaign.
	www.army.mil /cmh-pg/documents/spanam/BSSJH/Shbrt-BSSJH.htm (1951 words)

	Major-General Henry Ware Lawton, U.S.Volunteers
		When the attacks on San Juan Hill and El Caney began on July 1st, the Americans quickly learned they had underestimated the ability and determination of the Spanish troops.
		Operations were difficult and Shafter considered, and then requested that Lawton withdraw his forces from El Caney.
		Lawton distinguishing himself by the capture of El Caney and providing backup support for Teddy Roosevelt and his Rough Riders in their charge on San Juan Hill.
	www.militarymuseum.org /Lawton.html (4428 words)

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		Modifiers to the Spanish Surrender Table: +1 to the die roll if El Caney is occupied by an US or Cuban unit.
		Effects: the Spanish forces at El Morro and Socapa are released from garrison duty.
		At El Caney, the US artillery caused more casualties among its own troops than among the Spanish defenders.
	grognard.com /info1/santiago.doc (4647 words)

	Caney. The Columbia Gazetteer of North America. 2000
		Dickinson, E. Eliot, T.S. Frost, R. Hopkins, G.M. Keats, J. Lawrence, D.H. Masters, E.L. Sandburg, C. Sassoon, S. Whitman, W. Wordsworth, W. Yeats, W.B. All Nonfiction
		Caney (kah-NAI), town, Santiago de Cuba prov., E Cuba, 4 mi/6.4 km NE of Santiago de Cuba; 20°03'N 75°46'W. Has iron mines and textile factory.
		San Juan Hill is just S. Also El Caney.
	www.bartleby.com /69/13/C01613.html (76 words)

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