1903
1903: The United States acquires Guantánamo Bay in Cuba to serve as a strategic naval base for its growing Caribbean fleet.
1903: The United States acquires Guantánamo Bay in Cuba to serve as a strategic naval base for its growing Caribbean fleet. Military officers later expressed discontent with the site, maintaining American interest in alternative bases like Haiti’s Môle St Nicolas.
Source · p. 144
Nicholls, From Dessalines to Duvalier, 144