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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (74838)	7/31/2006 6:17:25 PM
From: Travis_Bickle	Respond to of 361992

General Antonio Maceo y Grajales (June 14, 1848—December 7, 1896) was second-in-command of the Cuban army of independence. Known as "the Titan of Bronze", Maceo was one of the outstanding guerrilla leaders in nineteenth century Latin America, easily comparable to José Antonio Páez of Venezuela. Maceo was the son of a Venezuelan mulatto and an Afro-Cuban woman. His father, Marcos Maceo, came to Santiago from Venezula, in 1823, after some of his comrades were exiled from South America. Antonio, the oldest of the children, inherited similar qualities of military leadership from his father. He was a successful entrepreneur and farmer and was later recognized as an outstanding general in the military who was referred to as "The Bronze Titan" by his loyal followers, given that he suffered 25 bullet wounds during his campaigns. Maceo began his fight for Cuban liberation by enlisting as a private in the Cuban army in 1868 when the Ten Years' War began. Five years later, he was promoted to the rank of general because of his bravery and his demonstrated ability to outmaneuver the Spanish army. In 1878, when most of the Cuban generals believed that their armies could not defeat the Spaniards, Maceo refused to surrender without winning Cuban independence and the abolition of slavery. He met with Spanish Marshall Arsenio Martínez Campos on March 15, 1878, to discuss the pact of peace, which he refused to acknowledge; this is known as the Protest of Baraguá. Maceo fled Cuba knowing he could not and would not submit to the Spanish. In New York, Maceo planned another invasion of Cuba with Calixto Garcia, resulting in the Little War from 1879 to 1880. He returned to Cuba when war with Spain began again in 1895. His most famous campaign in the Cuban War of Independence was his invasion of western Cuba when his troops, mostly Afro-Cubans on foot and horseback, covered more than 1,000 miles in 92 days and fought the enemy in 27 separate encounters. Spanish general Valeriano Weyler pursued him vigorously if only to curtail Maceo's destruction of the Cuban sugar industry. On December 7, 1896 Maceo was killed--with wounds 26 and 27—as he attempted to rejoin Máximo Gómez's forces. His death prompted yet another congressional resolution for belligerent rights for Cuba. Antonio Maceo Monument in Santiago de Cuba, CubaMaceo was quoted as having a strict motto; "My duties to Patria and to my own political convictions are above all human effort; for these I shall reach the pedestal of freedom or I shall perish fighting for the en.wikipedia.org of that land.." (November 3, 1890).