The mambises were the guerrilla independence soldiers who fought for Cuba's independence from Spain in the Ten Years' War and Cuban War of Independence...
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anti-materiel rifle designed and manufactured in Cuba. It was named after the Mambises, who were rebel soldiers that fought against the Kingdom of Spain during...
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families of Mambises, killing them immediately or sending them en masse to concentration camps on the island.[citation needed] The Mambises fought using...
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The revolutionaries were far outnumbered. The rebels were often called mambises. The origin of this term is disputed. Some suggest it may have originated...
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Eastern Cuba to reclaim Bayamo, while enduring ongoing harassment from the mambises of Camagüey. Once his march crossed through the territory of Camagüey,...
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manigua (the woods and most thick countryside) in order to support the Mambises, as Cuban rebels were known in the 19th century. The Maceos enlisted as...
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leaders Antonio Maceo Juan Rius Rivera Vidal Ducasse Colonel Granados Strength 1,000 Mambises 2,000 Infantry Casualties and losses Unknown Around 500...
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Ignacio Mora Lt. Martín Loynaz Lt. José Recio Betancourt Lt. Francisco Arteaga Piña Lt. Manuel Agramonte Porro Unknown Strength 70+ mambises Unknown...
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Contramaestre. The column was armed with swords and bayonets while the mambises carried mostly machetes, pitchforks, and other farming tools. Due to the...
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conventional approach, favored by Thomas Jordan and others. He gave the Cuban mambises their most feared tactic, the "machete charge." On October 25, 1868, during...
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unknown in western Cuba until 1895, when it was bought from Oriente by the mambises. Similarly, Fernando Ortiz stated that the wars between Spain and Cuba...
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Yara Part of Ten Years' War Belligerents Cuban rebels Spain Commanders and leaders Gen. Carlos Manuel de Céspedes Unknown Strength 140+ mambises Unknown...
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Martí Pérez, the National Hero, who was buried together with the other mambises veterans from 1947 to 1951, with the current tomb being inaugurated on...
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or significantly influenced by Cuban independence fighters, known as "mambises". In late 1872, the New York Herald sent James J. O'Kelly, an Irish nationalist...
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Cánovas del Castillo". Historia 16. Tamburini, F. (2000). "Betances, los mambises italianos y Michele Angiolillo, in Pasión por la libertad, Actas del coloquio...
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immediately, several pockets of rebellion spread. After a few days the “mambises” troops were at the gates of Santiago, after devastating the Spanish garrisons...
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Eastern Cuba to recover Bayamo, facing continuous harassment from the mambises of Camagüey. Anales de la Academia Nacional de Artes y Letras. (1929). Cuba: La...
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general Calixto García bowed at the image during a Holy Mass in honor of Mambises resistance. Our Lady of Charity acquired the title La Vírgen Mambisa or...
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some occasions he massacred Spanish prisoners and did not listen to other mambises who asked him to act according to the codes of honor. He was described...
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around 40 Mambises was led by Alberto Rodríguez Acosta and Juan Delgado González. The Spanish retreated to the stone fences as the remaining Mambises regrouped...
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Agustín Pérez Victoriano Garzón Joaquín Planas Jesús Rabí Unknown Strength 2500 mambises 505 soldiers Casualties and losses Unknown 21 dead and 56 wounded...
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his participation in the movement. During the Little War, he supported mambises in Matanzas Province and Las Villas Province as well as promoted Cecilio...
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land on Cayo Romano, crossed by canoe to La Guanaja, and enlisted in the mambises infantry. He served as a colonel in the Cuban Liberation Army during the...
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August 1895 in Oriente Province of Cuba. In this site of Guantánamo, 650 mambises under the command of Generals Antonio and José Maceo, fought against an...
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military action in 1890 at the age of 19 in a skirmish as a cadet against the Mambises guerrillas which were seeking independence for Cuba. In February 1895,...
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part of the Cuban War of Independence as it was the next operation of the Mambises by Máximo Gómez to distract Spanish troops to him and avoiding their pressure...
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Years' War, Periquito was already showing admiration and respect for the mambises, for which he was convinced by Colonel Silverio del Prado, to join the...
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Battle of Bad Weather (La Batalla de Mal Tiempo), in which Cuban rebels (Mambises) fought Spanish colonialists during the Cuban War of Independence. On December...
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charge of the mambises, the Spanish command ordered to deploy their troops and carry out rifle discharges that caused casualties to the mambises. After the...
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between the Spanish Colonial Government and the Cuban independence fighters (mambises). 1879-1880 The Little War, second war of Cuban independence. Another failed...
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