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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