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Title: Standard guide to Cuba : a new and complete guide to the island of Cuba, with maps, illustrations, routes of travel, history, and an English-Spanish phrase book
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Reynolds, Charles B. (Charles Bingham), 1856-1940
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Publisher: Havana : New York : Foster & Reynolds
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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e records that the Governorsof that period did much to adorn La Fuerza, providing reception parlorsand luxurious sculpture in the interior, and ornamental round balconieson the outside. Originally called La Fuerza, meaning The Fort, afterother forts were built it was known as La Vieja Fuerza, The Old Fort,and from its use for a residence as Governors Fort. This nameappears on the plan of 1762, which is reproduced on another page. The work is a quadrilateral fortress, having a bastion at each of thecorners. It is 25 yards in height; the walls are double, and the terrepleinsare supported on arches. It was surrounded by a deep moat. The bellin the tower sounded the hours through day and night, and was rung bythe sentinel always posted here to alarm the town of the approach of ahostile sail. Later the signal flags of La Fuerza repeated the messagesof those of the Morro, to announce the arrival of ships. The bronzefigure of the Indian girl on the tower, holding a cross and facing the Gulf,
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FROM THE TOWER OF LA FUERZA. 36 THli STANDARD GUIDE. was known to the sailors of the world as La Ilabana, and they carriedher fame into every sea. Originally occupying a point of vantage and standing out in front of thetown it was put here to defend, the fort was in course of time surroundedby the growing population, and its utility superseded by other and morepowerful fortifications. The moat was filled up; barracks were builtabout it, and high walls shut it in. It was even debased to the ofifice of ajail. In 1900, during the government of intervention, the Americans de-molished the encompassing walls, excavated the moat, and rebuilt themoat wall, replaced the drawbridge, repaired the bastions, parked thegrounds, and thus restored to Havana this most prized memorial of theold days. Havana has grown away from La Fuerza and put it aside asa relic, but it still serves a useful purpose as a hall of records for the safekeeping of the national archives. In the ancient armor room in an angl

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