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Many important officers of the Liberation Army in later years, such as Máximo Gómez and Antonio Maceo, saw their first action in the Ten Years' War. [14] Carlos Manuel Perfecto del Carmen de Céspedes y López del Castillo, Captain-General of Free Cuba and the Liberation Army (1868), President of the Republic-in-Arms (1869-1873)
Upon its establishment, the House of Representatives took on the responsibility of delegating positions. When Carlos Manuel de Céspedes was sworn in as its first president, Manuel de Quesada was appointed by the Guáimaro Assembly as the first General-in-chief of the Cuban Liberation Army, with Gen. Thomas Jordan as his chief of staff. [4]
He joined the ranks of the Cuban Liberation Army. In September 1895, Gen. Tomas and Enrique Collazo led an expedition that was reported by the Spanish consuls in Florida. [ 2 ] Returning to Cuba on the Horsa Expedition, they landed on the southern coast of Santiago de Cuba in November 1895.
The Cuban War of Independence (Spanish: Guerra de Independencia cubana), also known in Cuba as the Necessary War (Spanish: Guerra Necesaria), [5] fought from 1895 to 1898, was the last of three liberation wars that Cuba fought against Spain, the other two being the Ten Years' War (1868–1878) [6] and the Little War (1879–1880).
Rosendo Collazo y Garcia was born on March 1, 1875, in Las Mangas, Pinar del Río Province, Cuba. [3] He joined the Cuban Liberation Army in the 1890s and fought during the third Cuban War of Independence. He distinguished himself as an aide to General Antonio Maceo against the Spaniards in Havana. [4]
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At the time Rius Rivera, who joined José Martí's struggle for Cuban independence as a member of the Cuban Liberation Army, was the Commander-in-Chief of the Cuban Liberation Army of the West. [ 3 ] In accordance to the plan, Mattei Lluberas purchased 30,000 machetes which were to be distributed amongst the rebels.
Julio Sanguily Garritte was born in Havana on November 9, 1845, son to Julio Sanguily, a Frenchman from Haiti, and Mary Garritte, from Ireland. [2]His older brother, Guillermo, settled in the United States in 1862, and in Australia in 1872, where he died in 1909.