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Life Span. The first large group of U.S. visitors ever to come to Puerto Rico were the 3,415 troops commanded by Major General Nelson A. Miles, who splashed ashore on the beaches at Guanica to end the rule of Spain in 1898. By the peace treaty, Puerto Rico became a U.S. possession. Puerto Ricans have U.S. citizenship; their Resident Commissioner in Washington has a voice in Congress, but no vote. Congress has the right to repeal any act of the Puerto Rican legislature. The right has never been used, but its continued existence irks Puerto Ricans...
Vinceute A. Rodrigues '41, Guanica, Puerto Rico.; Walter F. Rogers Jr. '43 Jacksonville, Fla.; Edward I. Rothschild '42, Winnetka, Ill.; Hermann G. Rudenberg '41, Belmonet Mass.; Allan M. Sachs '42, New York, N.Y.; Robert C.C. St. George Jr. '43, Brooklyn...
...Island and the skirmish which took place immediately afterwards. He then outlined the campaign that had been planned for the conquest of Puerto Rico and told of General Stone's march across the island. After narrating the progress of his own column from the coast village of Guanica, where the troops landed, to Utnado, Arecibo, and San Juan, the lecturer described his second visit to the Island, the journey from San Juan to Arecibo, Utnado and Ponce, and the return of San Juan by the military road...
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