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From: Guillermo Fernandez <>
Subject: Re: [CUBA-L]Cuban/Spanish Military Records
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 15:39:42 -0800 (PST)
In-Reply-To: <043a01c1995e$5f483db0$e6686218@tavele1brdls8c>


thank you for this. I actually have this book but
haven't read it all. Now I'm going to look up those
pages.

Regards,
Guillermo

--- "Jose A. Tavel" <> wrote:
> In the book "The Story of Cuba", Sixth Edition -
> Revised to Date (1898) on page 469
> Muralt Halstead says:
>
> "There are in Cuban towns 60,000 volunteers,
> uniformed, drilled, armed with rifles
> and bayonets, and as they have no armories and
> supervise themselves, it is safe
> to say they have no masters. Each man keeps his
> gun and ammunition at home.
> The volunteers are, as a rule, native Spaniards,
> and have Spanish sympathies,
> bit they are identified with Cuba, and proud of
> their places. They are considered
> by the majority of the Cuban insurgents their most
> determined and remorseless
> enemies. But the volunteers are the armed
> representative men of business, and
> they hold the balance of power. More than once
> they have deposed
> captain-generals, and they can do it again. They
> mean, above all, to hold they
> arms and positions, and the latter are departing,
> for business is taking to itself
> wings and flying away."
>
> Guillermo, the preceding paragraph may give you a
> clue to the answer to your
> questions, maybe
>
> (1) He served as a volunteer from 1873 to 1895.
> (2) He could have joined the Ejercito Mambi in 1895.
> (3) Sorry no clue for this one.
> (4) He was a Spanish businessman.
>
> Good hunting.
>
>
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