1. Ajay Rai Block 4
The Revolutionary flag of Lares
"The first Puerto Rican Flag" used in the
unsuccessful Grito de Lares (Lares Uprising

2. Important People
• Gen. Nelson Appleton Miles – led invasion of
Puerto Rico with 26,000 US soilders
• U.S. General John R. Brooke became military
governor
• US Navy Captain Alfred T. Mahan became the
leading strategist and advisor to his government
• Formal war plan was developed by Lieutenant
William W. Kimball, focusing on Cuba and
Puerto Rico

3. Political
Cartoon:
What
Americans
viewed
they were
doing

4. Quotes
• John M. Palmer said imperialism, “undermined
democracy at home and abroad and violated the
fundamental principles upon which America had
been founded."
• American Anti-Imperialist League stated “We
hold that the policy known as imperialism is
hostile to liberty … an evil from which it has
been our glory to be free.”