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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)
Manuel de Quesada y Loynaz (March 29, 1833 - January 29, 1884) was a Cuban revolutionary and the first General-in-Chief of the Cuban Liberation Army who fought against Spain in the Ten Years' War. Early life
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 Liberation Army, guided by the firmness of taking the fight against Spanish colonialism to all corners of Cuba, starred in one of the most relevant events in Cuban history. In the midst of the "Cuban War of Independence", inspired by José Martí, that campaign responded to the old desire of the insurgent generals Maceo and Gómez. These ...
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).
The Commander-in-Chief of the Cuban Liberation Army of the West, General Antonio Maceo, was wounded and surrounded in a place called "La Trocha". In September 1897, Rius Rivera under General Enrique Collazo was sent with Cuban troops aboard the schooner Three Friends to rescue General Maceo. They were able to break through the Spanish blockade ...
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]
Cuban Liberation Army Spain: Defeat. Pact of Zanjón; Little War (1879–1880) Cuban Liberation Army Spain: Defeat. Rebel defeat; Cuban War of Independence (1895–1898) Cuban Liberation Army United States Spain: Victory. Cuban independence from Spain; Cuban Pacification (1906) Conservatives: Liberals: Liberal victory. Subsequent US occupation ...