Máximo Gómez
Máximo Gómez (Banished November 18th, 1836 - Havana June 17th, 1905) is a personality of the war of independence Cuba innate.
Biography
Born in 1836 with Banished, small town of the Dominican Republic, Máximo Gómez there Báez, becomes the general-in-chief of the army of cuban release and the symbol of solidarity between the West-Indian people.It is as a commander in the Spanish army that it is sent to Cuba in 1865 where it discovers in particular the situation of the slaves. Cruelty and the injustice with which they are treated revolt it and transform it deeply. It joint as of the rising of Yara, in October 1868, with insurgent which following Carlos Manuel of Cespedes fight for the independence of Cuba. This first war lasts ten years and finishes in 1878 by the defeat of the insurrectionists sealed by the Pact of Zanjón. The Spaniards promise there reforms, of which more autonomy for the island, which will remain for the majority dead letter.
Máximo Gómez must give up Cuba. It is exiled in Jamaica, with the Honduras then with the Panama, before returning to Dominican Republic. The Cuban Jose Martí, poet and writer engaged, untiring cantor of cuban independence joined there in 1892. He convinces it to take again the weapons. Together, they write Proclamation of Montecristi, the name of a Dominican city at the border with Haiti.
Jose Martí and Máximo Gómez, this last then 60 years old, general-in-chief of the army of release, unloads on the cuban coasts in April 1895 to start again the war of independence. Martí is killed with the combat one month later. With Antonio Maceo, Máximo Gómez plans and leads victoriously the military projection of the independence forces of the area of Directs with that of Occidente, maintaining in failure the Spanish troops for three years. However, the intervention of the the United States which establishes a military government of occupation in 1898 frustrates Gómez and the cuban people their ideals of independence and justice. When in 1902, Cuba obtains finally its independence, Gómez refuses the presidency. It dies out in 1905 with Havana.
He was freemason.
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