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<p>In August 1851 a filibuster expedition led by Narciso López disembarked in Cuba with the goal of triggering a revolution that would force the separation of the island from the Spanish colonial government. This was the third and the last of López’s attempts to organize a volunteer force that could serve as the spearhead of Cuban separatism and that could eventually lead to the annexation of the island to the USA. Many Europeans took part in the 1851 expedition as armed volunteers, and some among them were veterans of the 1848–1849 revolutions. The goal of this article is to focus on the European volunteers that took part in this last expedition, mainly on the Irish, British, Hungarian and German revolutionary actors that found in Cuban separatism a cause worth fighting for. Most of them belonged to the European migrant communities in the USA, and some among them understood the expedition as a continuation of their revolutionary experience during the 1848 upheavals. This continuity sheds light on the transatlantic entanglements of these actors in the aftermath of the revolutionary cycle, and connects 1848 radicalism with processes of imperial and colonial expansion in the Americas. The second part of the article uses the trajectories of the imprisoned volunteers to approach the changing international stance towards the Cuban question.</p>

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‘Pirates of whatever nation’: how filibusters turned the Cuban question into a European issue (1848–1851)

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    2025年6月20日

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  • Ignacio García de Paso

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In August 1851 a filibuster expedition led by Narciso López disembarked in Cuba with the goal of triggering a revolution that would force the separation of the island from the Spanish colonial government. This was the third and the last of López’s attempts to organize a volunteer force that could serve as the spearhead of Cuban separatism and that could eventually lead to the annexation of the island to the USA. Many Europeans took part in the 1851 expedition as armed volunteers, and some among them were veterans of the 1848–1849 revolutions. The goal of this article is to focus on the European volunteers that took part in this last expedition, mainly on the Irish, British, Hungarian and German revolutionary actors that found in Cuban separatism a cause worth fighting for. Most of them belonged to the European migrant communities in the USA, and some among them understood the expedition as a continuation of their revolutionary experience during the 1848 upheavals. This continuity sheds light on the transatlantic entanglements of these actors in the aftermath of the revolutionary cycle, and connects 1848 radicalism with processes of imperial and colonial expansion in the Americas. The second part of the article uses the trajectories of the imprisoned volunteers to approach the changing international stance towards the Cuban question.