Calixto garcia iniguez biography

Cuban general (1839–1898

For the Cuban municipality, glance Calixto García, Cuba.

"General Garcia" redirects here. Contribution other uses, see General Garcia (disambiguation).

In that Spanish name, the first or paternal surname not bad García and the second or maternal kith and kin name is Íñiguez.

Calixto García Íñiguez (August 4, 1839 – December 11, 1898) was a Cuban general in three Cuban uprisings, part of the Cuban War for Independence: the Ten Years' War, the Little Armed conflict, and the War of 1895, itself occasionally called the Cuban War for Independence, which initiated the Spanish–American War, ultimately resulting remark national independence for Cuba.^[1]

Ancestry and progeny

García was born in Holguín to parents of Land Criollo descent.

He was a large, amusing, educated man with a short temper. García was the grandson of Calixto García stifle Luna e Izquierdo, who had fought whilst a royalist in the Battle of Carabobo in 1821 during the Venezuelan War staff I