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Calixto García. Calixto García Íñiguez (August 4, 1839 – December 11, 1898) was a Cuban general in three Cuban uprisings, part of the Cuban War for Independence: the Ten Years' War, the Little War, and the War of 1895, itself sometimes called the Cuban War for Independence, which bled into the Spanish–American War, ultimately resulting ...
Ramón Calixto García Íñiguez ( Holguín, 4 de agosto de 1839 - Washington, D. C., 11 de diciembre de 1898) fue un líder insurrecto cubano durante la Guerra de los Diez Años (1868-1878), la Guerra Chiquita (1879-1880) y la Guerra Necesaria (1895-1898). Hombre de escasa formación, la mayor parte de la cultura personal que pudo obtener fue ...
- Calixto García e Iñiguez
Letter of protest from Cuban general Calixto García to U.S. general William R. Shafter on July 17, 1898. Sir: On May 12 the government of the Republic of Cuba ordered me, as commander of the Cuban army in the east, to cooperate with the American army following the plans and obeying the orders of its commander.
Calixto García ( b. 4 August 1839; d. 11 December 1898), general during Cuba's wars for independence. García rose through the ranks of the liberating army during the first Cuban war of independence, the Ten Years' War (1868–1878). Captured by the Spaniards and set free at the end of the war, García attempted to reignite the rebellion by ...
Other articles where Calixto García Iñiguez is discussed: Andrew Summers Rowan: Calixto Garcia y Íñiguez to determine the strength of the insurgent armies and obtain their cooperation. After completing his mission, he was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross. Rowan’s exploit was somewhat imaginatively described in Elbert Hubbard’s oft-reprinted essay “ A Message to Garcia ” (1899).
This is the text of the official war report sent by Major General Calixto Ramón García Iñiguez to his superior, the Commander in Chief of the Cuban Armies, Major General Máximo Gómez. The source for translation is letter published in the first hand Spanish language account of Escalante (1946) pp. 522-529.
Jan 11, 2019 · Calixto Ramón García Iñigues had been a wealthy plantation owner who had sacrificed everything he possessed to join the revolution. His hair and goatee were snow white; between his eyebrows was a deep cleft. During the collapse of the previous revolution, he had tried to kill himself rather than surrender.
