Name: Loma de San Juan
Address: Santiago de Cuba, Cuba, CU
Telephone: +53 22 687200

Loma de San Juan is a point of interest, located at Santiago de Cuba, Cuba. They can be contacted via phone at +53 22 687200 for more detailed information.

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Anonymous

23 August 2017

It was fun to finally see the place that was described long ago in out history classes.
Anonymous

30 May 2017

El parque histórico de San Juan y Árbol de la Paz se encuentra en Santiago de Cuba. En este parque se desarrolló una importante batalla en el marco de la guerra hispano-cubano-estadounidense, y bajo este árbol se firmó la capitulación de Santiago.

Este sitio debe su trascendencia al papel desempeñado en la defensa de la ciudad en la Guerra hispano-cubano-estadounidense, conflicto que puso fin al dominio español sobre Cuba.
Anonymous

09 April 2017

This is a Cuban National Monument to the Joint cooperation of Cuban Insurrecto Independence fighters and the US Army which together fought agains Spain in the Cuban-Spanish-American War is it is known in Cuba and the Spanish-American War as it is known in the United States. THis is also the site of the Battle of San Juan Heights which included both Kettle Hill and San Juan Hill. There extensive monuments, artillery pieces and a ceremonial Spanish-syle fort or block house or blocao as they are known in Spanish. The Battle of San Juan Heights (La Loma San Juan, in Spanish) took place on 1 July 1898. The most famous participant was future US President, Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt who led the 1st US Volunteer Cavalry, or the famous Rough Riders in a charge first up Kettle Hill and then on to this hill, San Juan Hill. Roosevelt's charge would lead him to the Governorship of New York State in the fall of 1899, the Vice Presidency in 1900 and the White House as 26th US President when the sitting US President, William McKinley was shot and assassinated in Buffalo, New York in September of 1900. Two US Army Divisions took part in the attack including Kent's 2d Division and Wheeler's Cavalry Division which included the 1st, (Regular) 1st Volunteer (Rough Riders) and the 9th & 10th (African-American Buffalo Soldiers) Cavalry. The attack was delayed by the mistaken notion that the 1st Division under Lawton would show up. But Lawton's division was pinned down in the nearby city of El Caney until after 4pm on that day. Realizing that Lawton was not going to show up and with the Americans taking significant casualities, and with 5th Corps commander, Shafter down with either Malaria, his aide, believe it or not, took it upon himself to give the order to attack. Fortunately for the American Army, the delay allowed a Gattling Gun detachment under Lt. Parker to show up. They had struggled up from their landing site in Daiquri for almost 2 weeks. Set up at the base of San Juan Heights, 3 guns fired more than 18,000 rounds on the entrenched Spanish. This gave the Americans covering file to advance up the Hill. American casualties would have been 6 times higher without the support of "Machine Gun Parker" as he would come to be known and might have failed as the Spaniards were entrenched up to their chins and had German-made Krupp artillery set up behind the top of the hill to support them. American artillery consisting in obsolete Hotchkiss 1 lb 40mm guns with-OUT smokeless power easily gave their positions away ever time they fired from nearby El Pozo Hill which was also the HQ of Shafter's 5th Corps. A small army of American newpaper correspondents, European and even Japanese foreign observer officers watched the battle from El Pozo Hill and ALL of them predicted the attack would fail as the US had only one battery of 4 guns and none of the traditional fire power of world-class armies. Parker's machine gun fire, however did the trick for fire suppression. The Rough Riders and other regiments of Wheeler's cavalry division first charged up nearby Kettle Hill and then hearing Parker's Gatling guns firing on San Juan Hill, Colonel Teddy Roosevelt guided his regiment up San Juan Hill, up it's eastern slopes as Kent's regular division of 6,000 assaulted the southern slope at a roughly 90 degree angle. Both sides reached the top just about the same time. Fortunately for the Americans Parker SAW the cease fire signal and stopped firing just as the Americans closed in on the 1st line of Spanish trenches after clearing the barbed wire. One of 6 men carried wire cutters. By 4pm the battle was largely over. The Spanish abandoned the trenches just minutes before the Americans jumped into them. See attached battlefield maps drawn by both the US Army and correspondents.