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Battle of Cuzco Well [ edit ] Lt Col. Thomas of the Cuban rebel forces advised Colonel Huntington to attack the Spanish garrison at Cuzco Well, consisting of four companies of Spanish infantry and two companies of loyalist guerrilla forces totaling some 500 men.
BLUF: The Battle of Cuzco Well was a portion of the larger fight for Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, during the Spanish– American War, on 14 June 1898. The conflict involved elements of the First Marine Battalion (Reinforced) and Cuban rebels as they fought to take the only freshwater source on the point from the Spanish.
10 JUNE – 9 AUGUST 1898. GUANTÁNAMO BAY. Cover: Cuzco Well, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, 1898, by Charles H. Waterhouse. The first Marines to campaign in and around Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, landed during the Spanish-American War, and the area now known as GITMO has been a Marine base ever since.
The battle continued for almost anoth- er hour before the Spanish decided they'd had enough and started looking for a way to exit Cuzco Well. From their van- tage points the Marines watched as the Spanish started to withdraw and gave chase. At 3:15 p.m. a platoon entered Cuzco and wrecked the well. In the end Elliott had handily defeated
The Marine action at Cuzco Beach is known as the Battle of Cuzco Well. Companies C and D joined by more than fifty Cuban insurgents and supported by the gunfire of the U.S.S. DOLPHIN engaged the enemy for most of a blistering hot day. The battalion reached its objective, destroying the well.
Guantánamo Public Memory Project – Battle for Cuzco Wells. contact. Guantánamo Public Memory Project. 1898 – 19341903 – 19591959 – 20021991 – Present2002 – Present. Creative: Picture Projects& Tronvig Group. Stories. Place. Timeline. Participate.
The Battle of Guantánamo Bay was fought from June 6 to June 10 in 1898, during the Spanish-American War, when American and Cuban forces seized the strategically and commercially important harbor of Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.
