Garcia y Iñigues, Calixto

Garcia y Iñigues, Calixto ( 1836 – 98 )
Cuban nationalist. He led his country's preliminary struggles for independence from Spain. A leader during the Ten Years' War ( 1868 – 78 ), and the Little War ( 1879 – 80 ), his military efforts enjoyed scant success and resulted in his prolonged imprisonment. Cuban troops under his command supported US forces during the Spanish-American War, but Garcia, shortly before his death, rejected his erstwhile allies, fearing that Cuba had simply exchanged one master for another.