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“The winner rewrites history as he pleases” The oft-repeated saying is perfect to sum up what the United States perpetrated with the actions of Navy Lieutenant Domingo Montes Regüeiferos on May 11, 1898. Although that day the powerful American fleet retreated from Cárdenas Bay, smarting after receiving a good kick in the shin from a tiny squadron armed with more gonads than cannons, the Stars and Stripes told the world a very different version of what happened.