Vicente García González

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Vicente García González
Vicente García González

Vicente García González (born January 23, 1833 in Las Tunas , Cuba , † March 4, 1886 in Caracas , Venezuela ) was a Cuban politician, and important independence fighter and general in the Ten Years' War .

Life

Vicente García was born on January 23, 1833 in Las Tunas in what was then the province of Oriente . He attended school in Santiago de Cuba . He grew up in a wealthy family and began his studies in Las Tunas and then moved to Santiago, where he continued his studies at the "Seminario San Basilio el Magno". He married Brígida Zaldívar Cisneros, who stayed by his side even during the war.

The Spaniards murdered him with ground glass that was mixed into his food. On March 4, 1886, the Cuban general died in the Río Chico region in Guzmán Blanco state in Venezuela

Political career

He took part in the conspiratorial meetings of San Miguel de Rompe in August 1868 and organized the weapons for the struggle for independence against the Spaniards. In the first months of the war he witnessed the attack on his hometown and led the troops of the independence fighters in Minas de Rompe, La Cuaba and El Hormiguero, among others.

In the spring of 1870 he became head of the Las Tunas district.

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SURNAME García González, Vicente
ALTERNATIVE NAMES García, Vincente
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Cuban politician, independence fighter and general in the Ten Years' War
DATE OF BIRTH January 23, 1833
PLACE OF BIRTH Las Tunas , Cuba
DATE OF DEATH March 4, 1886
Place of death Caracas