an offensive on the prosperous western end of the island, destroying sugar plantations and causing severe damage to Spain's economy.

Spanish administration

Governor of Cuba Arsenio Martínez Campos insisted to Spain that the only path to victory included harsher strategies against the rebels. He reckoned it would be necessary to remove the supportive rural population from rebels in order to streamline offensives. Campos personally could not bring himself to order the forced relocation

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