The first attempt to land took place on June 29 near the port of Cienfuegos, at the mouth of the San Juan River, however as a result of a prior assault on May 11, the position was too heavily defended to effect a landing.Thomas, Lately. The Astor Orphans: A Pride of Lions, W. Morrow, 1971. On June 30 a landing party went ashore on a beachhead just west of Tunas de Zaza, near the mouth of the Tallabacoa River (mispronounced 'Tayacoba' by the Americans).Richard H. Titherington, A History of the Spanish–American War of 1898, New York: D. Appleton and Company 1900, p. 149.
