List of Cubans - Military

Military

  • Adolfo Fernández Cavada, Captain in the Union Army during the American Civil War who later served as Commander-in-Chief of the Cinco Villas during Cuba's Ten Year War.
  • Alberto Bayo y Giroud, a Cuban military leader of the defeated left-wing Loyalists in the Spanish Civil War.
  • Antonio Maceo Grajales, Second-in-command of the Cuban army of independence
  • Arnaldo Ochoa, Cuban General
  • Calixto García, Cuban soldier in the Ten Years' War
  • Carlos Manuel de Céspedes, Cuban General in the war of independence against the Spanish
  • Emilio Mola Vidal (June 9, 1887 – June 3, 1937) was a Nationalist commander during the Spanish Civil War (1936–39). He is best known for coining the phrase "fifth column."
  • Federico Fernández Cavada, Colonel in the Union Army during the American Civil War and later Commander-in-Chief of all the Cuban forces during Cuba's Ten Year War.
  • Jesús Sosa Blanco, captain in the Cuban army under Fulgencio Batista.
  • José Braulio Alemán, Cuban general in the Spanish-American War.
  • José Miguel Gómez, Cuban General in the war of independence against the Spanish
  • Julius Peter Garesché, Lieutenant Colonel in the Union Army who served as Chief of Staff, with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel to Maj. Gen. William S. Rosecrans.
  • Loreta Janeta Velazquez a.k.a. "Lieutenant Harry Buford", Velazquez was a Cuban born woman who masqueraded as a male Confederate soldier during the Civil War.
  • Manuel Artime, leader of the Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961.
  • Máximo Gómez, 19th century leader of Cuban forces in the wars of independence
  • Pedro Luis Diaz Lanz, Chief Air Force Commander and member of Operation 40
  • Víctor Dreke, Communist leader and a General in the Revolutionary Armed Forces.
  • Tomás Diez Acosta, revolutionary soldier and historian

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