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Ejército Mambí
The Cuban Liberation Army (Spanish language, Spanish: ''Ejército Libertador de Cuba''), colloquially known as the Mambises, Mambí Army (Spanish language, Spanish: ''Ejército Mambí'') was an Insurgency, insurgent army which was formed in the last third of the 19th century and fought for independence from Spain and the Abolitionism, abolition of slavery. It first saw combat in the Ten Years' War (1868-1878) under the command of Carlos Manuel de Céspedes, Ignacio Agramonte, and Carlos Roloff. The independentists were decentralized and operated within their own regions autonomously of each other, until the Assembly of Guáimaro established the Republic-in-Arms of Cuba and the Liberation Army's command structure. After the Pact of Zanjón, a brief uprising called the Little War (Cuba), Little War saw Major-Generals Calixto García and Antonio Maceo Grajales, Antonio Maceo lead the Army of Liberation in another attempt at independence and the abolition of slavery, though unsucces ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spanish Language
Spanish ( or , Castilian) is a Romance languages, Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from colloquial Latin spoken on the Iberian peninsula. Today, it is a world language, global language with more than 500 million native speakers, mainly in the Americas and Spain. Spanish is the official language of List of countries where Spanish is an official language, 20 countries. It is the world's list of languages by number of native speakers, second-most spoken native language after Mandarin Chinese; the world's list of languages by total number of speakers, fourth-most spoken language overall after English language, English, Mandarin Chinese, and Hindustani language, Hindustani (Hindi-Urdu); and the world's most widely spoken Romance languages, Romance language. The largest population of native speakers is in Mexico. Spanish is part of the Iberian Romance languages, Ibero-Romance group of languages, which evolved from several dialects of Vulgar Latin in I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
