the right side against flanking. The troops under Lt. Col. Mart�nez had already traveled eastward towards the town of Aibonito and only a handful of soldiers remained behind to delay the American advance. Troop C galloped at top speed north from the Ba�os de Coamo, after finding the resort abandoned by the Spanish. The damages caused by the artillery bombardment during the war are still visible today.
In 1879, Braulio Due�o Colon, a Puerto Rican musician and composer, composed the music for the Zarzuela ( a Spanish lyric-dramatic genre that alternates between spoken and sung scenes, the latter incorporating operatic and popular song, as well as dance) "Los Ba�os de Coamo" which was originally written by Genaro de Arazamendi.
By the end 19th century and beginning of the 20th century, the springs gained international recognition. The resort that operated between 1847 and 1958 and which still had the hotel built by Usera Soriano in 1857, welcomed many notable visitors including Franklin D. Roosevelt, Frank Lloyd Wright, Alexander Graham Bell, and Thomas Edison. The Ba�os de Coamo resort closed its doors in 1959 and was in ruins and abandonment for many years
