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Funes de Villalpando, Ambrosio (Conde
de Ricla, captain general), 61, 65, 67, 68,
107, 135
Gálvez, Bernardo de (Conde de Gálvez),
198, 199; as governor of Louisiana,
137, 138, 141; leads military campaigns,
144–47, 149, 150–51, 155; as captain
general of Cuba, 157, 158, 159
Gálvez, José de (minister of the Indies),
13, 122, 123, 128, 130, 134, 138, 141, 142,
146, 151, 158, 204
Gálvez, Matías de (military ocer), 151
García, Joaquín (president of Santo Do-
mingo), 176–79, 180, 182–85, 187, 198
Gardoqui, Diego de (consul in Philadel-
phia), 159, 177, 194
Gardoqui, José de (head of mercantile
house), 127
Gardoqui and Son, 127
Gibacoa, 175
Godoy, Manuel de (minister of war),
187, 190
Graon, Joseph (New England mer-
chant), 152–53, 158–59
Great Britain, 10, 11, 76, 122, 155, 196, 197;
war against Spain, 15, 35, 40–55, 66, 96,
99, 123, 142, 143–51, 154; relationship
with thirteen colonies, 126–28, 132, 200;
alliance with Spain, 176
Gremio de panaderos (bakers’ guild of
Havana), 115, 138
Grimaldi, Marqués de (minister of the
Indies), 68
Guadaloupe, 70, 76
Guanabacoa, 32, 49, 58, 84, 85, 109, 110,
163, 168, 175
Guantánamo Bay, 117
Guarico, 3, 130, 131, 134, 176, 179, 182–83,
188
Guaycabón, 42
Güemes y Horcasitas, Juan Francisco
(Conde de Revillagigedo, viceroy of
Mexico), 27, 34
Güines, 15, 111, 112, 172, 175
Gulf of Mexico, 5, 69, 71, 93, 124, 142, 143,
185, 205
Haitian Revolution, 2, 8
Hamilton, Alexander, 102; as George
Washington’s aide-de-camp, 142
Hasse, Thomas (priest), 155–58
Havana, 25, 29, 32, 35, 42, 98, 127, 131, 135,
138, 140, 148, 152, 153, 157, 195, 197–98;
siege, fall, and occupation of, 8, 15, 18,
22, 40–41, 47–58, 60, 61–68, 94, 117, 135,
137, 195; as military center, 8–9, 143–47,
149, 150, 176, 178, 180, 182, 187; hospitals
in, 19, 51, 53–55, 107, 172; as port, 23, 44,
46, 56, 57–58, 68, 79, 80, 90, 92, 95, 99,
105, 106, 114, 118, 143, 151, 154, 155–60,
189–91, 193–95; disease in, 26, 41, 53–55,
170; situado for, 27, 132; as administra-
tive center, 33, 34, 37, 39, 67, 73, 78, 81,
96, 97, 113, 115, 116, 132, 134; shortages
in, 50–52, 58, 71, 100, 101, 105–6, 135, 164,
171; hurricanes in, 82–90, 115–19, 124,
133, 152, 154–55, 156, 163–67, 185–86
Hincha, 178, 179, 184
Hispaniola, 9, 20, 23, 70, 100, 101, 130, 176,
182, 204
Historical climatology, 1, 2, 20, 199
Holguín, 35, 45, 98, 118, 148
Holland, 11, 66, 196
Hospitals, 18–19, 22, 44, 51–52, 56, 107, 117,
125, 172, 179, 183, 186
Huonny, Daniel (captain), 24–25
Hurricanes, 3, 6, 12–17, 41, 77, 93, 152,
188–89, 191, 193, 195, 196, 199, 202; in
Louisiana, 5, 61, 71–72, 101, 185, 197–98,
200; in Jamaica, 21–22, 69–70, 73–74,
82, 101, 118, 124; oshore, 23–25; ef-
fects of, 23–25, 26–29, 42–55, 69–71,
99–103, 107–11; in Santiago de Cuba,
28, 41, 45, 70, 101–2, 116–19, 124, 172–73;
in Oriente, 42–43, 45–55, 70; in Saint
Domingue, 69, 124, 150; Caribbean-
wide, 69–71, 131–32, 148–49; in Puerto
Rico, 70, 72, 101–3; in Matanzas, 82,
116, 124, 152, 172, 185; in Havana, 82–90,