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Antonio Maceo

1845–1896 · 19th century · Also known as Antonio Maceo Grajales

Antonio Maceo was a Cuban general of the wars of independence, nicknamed the 'Bronze Titan'. An Afro-Cuban from Santiago, he rose through the Ten Years' War and rejected the Pact of Zanjón in the Protest of Baraguá in 1878. Returning in 1895, he led the invasion of western Cuba with Máximo Gómez and was killed in battle at San Pedro in December 1896.

Antonio Maceo
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