CHAPTER VI--91

Another Expedition Organized by Lopez--Its Roster--Departure from New Orleans--Colonel Crittenden--Arrival at Key West--The Landing in Cuba--Lack of Cuban Support--Fatal Division of Forces--Desperate Fighting with Spaniards--Crittenden's Mistake--Capture of the Revolutionists by the Spaniards--Indignities and Tortures--Fifty-Two Put to Death--Heroism of Crittenden--Ill Fortune of Lopez--Betrayal and Capture of Lopez and His Comrades--His Death on the Scaffold.