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Máximo Gómez y Báez (born November 18, 1836, Baní, Dominican Republic—died June 17, 1905, Havana, Cuba) was the commander in chief of the Cuban revolutionary forces in the unsuccessful Ten Years’ War (1868–78) and again in the successful Cuban revolution against Spain some 20 years later.
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Máximo Gómez. A Dominican by birth, Máximo Gómez (1836-1905) became a general in Cuba's independence army and a hero of the struggle which ended Spanish domination over Cuba. Máximo Gómez was born in the small town of Baní in the Dominican Republic on Nov. 18, 1836.
Máximo Gómez (Máximo Gómez Báez; Baní, República Dominicana, 1836 - La Habana, 1905) Dirigente militar de los independentistas cubanos. Destinado a la carrera eclesiástica, Máximo Gómez cambió la sotana por las armas al producirse la invasión de Santo Domingo por Haití en 1855.
Born in Santo Domingo, Major General Máximo Gómez Baez commanded Spanish reserve troops there when he traveled to Cuba in 1865. At first he was a supporter of and fighter in the Ten Years' War, Cuba's first struggle for independence, but he soon retired from the fight and returned to his plantations back home.
Máximo Gómez y Báez (November 18, 1836 – June 17, 1905) was a Dominican Generalissimo in Cuba's War of Independence (1895–1898). He was known for his controversial scorched-earth policy, which entailed dynamiting passenger trains and torching the Spanish loyalists' property and sugar plantations—including many owned by Americans.
Máximo Gómez. Gómez, Máximo. Baní, Peravia (República Dominicana), 18.XI.1836 – La Habana (Cuba), 17.VI.1905. Militar, general en jefe del ejército independentista cubano. La fecha de nacimiento no se conoce con exactitud, como el propio Gómez reconoce en sus notas autobiográficas (escritas en 1894): “No puedo precisar la fecha en ...
In Cuban Independence Movement. Máximo Gómez y Báez, who had commanded the rebel troops during the Ten Years’ War, was among those who joined Martí’s invasion force. Although Martí was killed (and martyred) in battle about one month after initiation of the invasion on April 11, 1895, Gómez and….
