Cuban War (Cinco De Mayo)

The Cuban War was a conflict fought between 1868 and 1875 on the island of Cuba between local rebels and Spain, during the final four of which the Confederate States fought on the side of the Cuban rebels. The war ended with the Treaty of Veracruz, which divided the island of Cuba between the revolutionary eastern half of the island, which became the independent Republic of Cuba and the western side, which was ceded to the Confederacy as the Protectorate of Western Cuba. Both would undergo Confederate occupation until 1889, when the Confederacy accepted Western Cuba as a state, and 1891, during the Guantanamo Crisis, which nearly sparked war between the Great Powers when the Confederacy refused to evacuate from the Republic of Cuba.