I had seen the long stretch of the southern coast of the island, from Cape Antonio to Cape Maisi, while on an excursion with a part of the army of occupation sent to Porto Rico in the summer of 1898, and had set foot on Cuban soil at daiquiri, but Havana in the morning light, on January 2, 1899, was my first real Cuban experience.
"Cuba, Old and New"
Albert Gardner Robinson
In the attack on Santiago, the little party that first landed at daiquiri, a small town on the coast a few miles from the city, carried the flag with them.
"The Little Book of the Flag"
Eva March Tappan
Sixteen thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven officers and men set sail from Tampa on June 14 and began to disembark eight days later at daiquiri, sixteen miles to the east of Santiago.
"The United States Since The Civil War"
Charles Ramsdell Lingley