 In November 1895, 20-year-old Winston Churchill, a lieutenant in the 4th Hussars, secured a few weeks' leave from his regiment to visit Cuba, with the aim of observing the Cuban Revolutionary War against Spain.Getting there involved travelling by way of New York via Liverpool and Queenstown on "Etruria".Thus, on 9 November, Winston Churchill arrived in New York harbour aboard "Etruria", and first set foot in his mother's homeland and the city where she had been born and brought up.