It is a narrow, mountainous strip of land, 760 miles long and in some
parts only 28 miles wide, the very broadest part being 127 miles.[A]

You can readily see that no one general could control the whole of such a
country.

The Cuban army has been divided into three parts:

The Eastern Division, under General Calixto Garcia, which is fighting in
and has brought peace to Santiago de Cuba, the most eastern part of the
island.

The Central Division, under the leadership of General Maximo Gomez,
against which Weyler has set out, and which is supposed to be in Santa
Clara.

The Western division, consisting of the bands that have been raiding the
suburbs of Havana, and making so much trouble in Pinar del Rio, the most
westerly province of the island.

The brilliant feat that General Garcia has accomplished is that he has
made a force of nearly three thousand Spanish soldiers come out to meet
him, and after pretending to fall back before them until he had lured them
to a certain place, he has turned upon them, and chased them into the
mountains, until he has finally forced them into the Algones Valley.

In this valley they are completely cut off from their friends, and he has
them at his mercy. News is hourly expected that the entire Spanish force
has either surrendered or been killed.