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Máximo Gómez

1836–1905 · 19th century

Máximo Gómez was a Dominican-born general who became the commander of Cuba's independence armies. He fought throughout the Ten Years' War of 1868–1878 and, as general-in-chief in the war of 1895, led the invasion of western Cuba with Antonio Maceo, using guerrilla tactics and the burning of sugar estates. He died in Havana in 1905, after Cuban independence.

Máximo Gómez
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