Official Spanish reports give the following table of their losses yearly during the Ten Years' War: _Year_ _Force in Field_ _Deaths_ 1869 35,570 5,504 1870 47,242 9,395 1871 55,357 6,574 1872 58,708 7,780 1873 52,500 5,902 1874 62,578 5,923 1875 63,212 6,361 1876 78,099 8,482 1877 90,245 17,677 1878 81,700 7,500 ------ Total 81,098 CHAPTER XVII The Spanish government had granted concessions to the Cubans, or what on their face seemed to be concessions, but in actual administration, the government remained practically the same. The power remained vested in a military government, at the head of which was the Captain-General, whose name was subsequently changed to Governor-General, but whose nature and functions remained in the last analysis very little different from what they had been before the revolution. The struggle had, however, given the Cubans less fear of their tyrant. They had demonstrated that they were able for ten years to keep up an armed resistance against their oppressors, and one which had occasioned Spain a great loss of life, and of property, and had caused her rulers to have many unpleasant hours, struggling with vexing problems. Those who had accomplished this would never again be quite the same. They could never again be ground beneath the heels of Spanish tyrants in the same unresisting if not uncomplaining fashion, which had been the regular order of things before the revolution. Had a Lopez come to Cuba, he would have found a far different people from those who failed to rally to aid him when in 1851 he made his fruitless efforts to free the island. During 1878 two political parties were organized in Cuba, and another was essayed, the proposed constitution of the latter forming the basis for the platform of the Autonomistas, then the most radical of all Cuban political organizations.