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Title: America's war for humanity, related in story and picture, embracing a complete history of Cuba's struggle for liberty...
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Ingalls, John James, 1833-1900
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Publisher: New York, Thompson
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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, promises could not deceive him.His devotion to Cuban freedom was like the devotion of a father to his fam-ily. All his energies, physical and intellectual, were given freely to hiscountry. He won the rank of colonel at Sacra, between Guimara and PuertoPrincipe. MA CEO, THE GREAT GENERAL. 101 This was the first and only time that Maceo was ever driven back, butthe odds against him were fearful. Gomez was engaged in battle with Gen-eral Valmesada, under whom Weyler learned cruelty and brutality. Gomez,at this time, had eight hundred men, and Valmesada 1500. Only threehundred of the patriots were armed with rifles. The others carried themachete, and used it with deadly effect. Two hundred men were put underMaceos command. He was placed in an important position, and told tohold it as long as possible. Meantime, Gomez prepared an ambuscade for theSpaniards. Maceo held the position for hours, and brought back eighty ofhis two hundred men, fifty-two of the eighty being wounded. The Spanish
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)Nf HIS WAV forces were caught in a ravine, and lost six hundred men. It was the mostmomentous battle of the ten years war. Maceo was then a captain, andGomez commander-in-chief. Maceo, though a mulatto, was a second cousin of Martinez Campos.His mother came from the town of Mayari, on the north coast of EasternCuba. Indian blood courses in the veins of its inhabitants—the Indians ofwhom Jesus Rabi, a prominent Cuban general, is so striking a representa-tive. Maceos mother was half Indian and half negro. Her family namewas Grinan, Colonel Martinez del Campos, the father of Martinez Campos,was the military governor of Mayari. While in this station he had relations )02 AMERICAS WAR FOR HUMANITY. with a woman of Indian and negro blood, who was a first cousin of Maceosmother. It was in Mayari that Martinez Campos was born. The fatherreturned to Spain, taking his boy with him. Campos was baptized andlegitimized in Spain, and under Spanish law the town in which one is bap-tized is recogni

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