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...

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...

families of Mambises, killing them immediately or sending them en masse to concentration camps on the island.[citation needed] The Mambises fought using...

The revolutionaries were far outnumbered. The rebels were often called mambises. The origin of this term is disputed. Some suggest it may have originated...

Eastern Cuba to reclaim Bayamo, while enduring ongoing harassment from the mambises of Camagüey. Once his march crossed through the territory of Camagüey,...

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...

leaders Antonio Maceo Juan Rius Rivera Vidal Ducasse Colonel Granados Strength 1,000 Mambises 2,000 Infantry Casualties and losses Unknown Around 500...

Ignacio Mora Lt. Martín Loynaz Lt. José Recio Betancourt Lt. Francisco Arteaga Piña Lt. Manuel Agramonte Porro Unknown Strength 70+ mambises Unknown...

Contramaestre. The column was armed with swords and bayonets while the mambises carried mostly machetes, pitchforks, and other farming tools. Due to the...

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...

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...

Yara Part of Ten Years' War Belligerents Cuban rebels  Spain Commanders and leaders Gen. Carlos Manuel de Céspedes Unknown Strength 140+ mambises Unknown...

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...

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...

Cánovas del Castillo". Historia 16. Tamburini, F. (2000). "Betances, los mambises italianos y Michele Angiolillo, in Pasión por la libertad, Actas del coloquio...

immediately, several pockets of rebellion spread. After a few days the “mambises” troops were at the gates of Santiago, after devastating the Spanish garrisons...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Agustín Pérez Victoriano Garzón Joaquín Planas Jesús Rabí Unknown Strength 2500 mambises 505 soldiers Casualties and losses Unknown 21 dead and 56 wounded...

his participation in the movement. During the Little War, he supported mambises in Matanzas Province and Las Villas Province as well as promoted Cecilio...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

between the Spanish Colonial Government and the Cuban independence fighters (mambises). 1879-1880 The Little War, second war of Cuban independence. Another failed...