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Renewed Cuban Successes--The Island in a State of Siege--Concha Again Captain-General--Record of the Cost of the War--The United States Threatens Intervention--Spanish Anger--A Protest to England Against America--American Peace Proposals--Strength of the Spanish Army--A War of Extermination--Martinez Campos Becomes Captain-General--His Conciliatory Decrees--Surrender of Cuban Leaders--The Treaty of Zanjon--End of the War--Campos's Explanation of His Course.

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