Vicente García was born in Las Tunas in 1833. From the first moments of the Ten Years’ War he joined the struggle and became one of his chief military leaders in the East. His personal courage and commanding conditions earned him the nickname of Leon of Santa Rita. He fought directly, repeatedly risked his life and came to sacrifice his own house during the war. The seizure and fire of Las Tunas, in 1876, was associated with the famous determina…
This story is only covered by news sources that have yet to be evaluated by the independent media monitoring agencies we use to assess the quality and reliability of news outlets on our platform. Learn more here.
Vicente García was born in Las Tunas in 1833. From the first moments of the Ten Years’ War he joined the struggle and became one of his chief military leaders in the East. His personal courage and commanding conditions earned him the nickname of Leon of Santa Rita. He fought directly, repeatedly risked his life and came to sacrifice his own house during the war. The seizure and fire of Las Tunas, in 1876, was associated with the famous determina…