Many of the generals who fought in Dominican War of Independence and against later Haitian invasions, the Dominican Restoration War against Spain, the Cuban War of Independence, Ten Years' War, the Little War, and the Puerto Rican Grito de Lares uprising, supported this idea. Support was strongest from the 1850s up until the Spanish-American War, which transferred the colonies of Cuba (briefly) and Puerto Rico (until Present day) from Spain to the United States, since then the support for the idea largely faded away.