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Retrieve Sanguily from the Brigadier Julius

During the independentist wars, they happened made they inspired for your historic and moral meaning to mambisas to forces to continue the fight.

One of the main events of the war of 1868 was the Brigadier Julius Sanguily's rescue, the October 8, 1871 in the farm The Hope, also known like Antonio Torres, once some 25Km was located southwest of Port-Au-Prince (Camaguey), in the surroundings of the today so-called Community Rescate of Sanguily in honor to this military feat.

Finding oneself wounded in a ranch, Sanguily was told on and emprisoned fact, without being able to defend. The Spanish took it to execute it. Once the Mayor Ignacio Agramonte was paid, he planned the rescue, with only 35 men of cavalry and in front of them, he initiated the persecution; A guerrilla warfare of a battalion of the Brave Regiment attacked of around 120 soldiers directed by the Comandante Cesar Matos. This story collects the fundamental aspects of that feat:
(...) Agramonte with forceful voice told his soldiers that was necessary to rescue live or dead Sanguily although all in the action perished, and immediately afterwards shouted: Cornet, touch you to beheading!
(...) The mambises advanced machete in hand to crash into the enemy, getting stuck a terrible hand-to-hand fighting.
In the meantime, Agramonte ordered the leveled ground of five armed soldiers in order that they opened fire for the right-back, which sowed the bewilderment between the enemy forces skillfully. In between the confusion caused by the attack between your capturers, Sanguily made the horse run in which they took it toward your companions.
In order to warn them about your ghost he stirred the hat in the right hand, shouting: Live Free Barrel!
Agramonte, livid for emotion, embraced in his arms the rescued hero. The brave soldiers of the action believed in fullnesses of euphoria to the Mayor and to their dear Brigadier. The Cubans had a dead person and a wounded person in the combat. The Spanish left 11 cadavers, sixty horses and numerous armament at the field. Between the rebels the action had a moral effect very positive.
Later, when Agramonte referred to the exploit of the rescue, he told your listeners:
My soldiers did not fight like men: They fought like wild beasts!

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