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Henry Reeve, call The Little Englishman: He was born in Brooklyn, and that's why Ignacio Agramonte Enrique told The American. He participated in around 400 combats and it was wounded, sometimes severely,

In ten of them. Behind the battle of Southern Santa Cruz (1873) we had to adapt him a metallic prosthesis in an one belonging to your legs and to construct him a special device so that he could stand his ground on your mount. He combatted at the service of Agramonte, he accompanied him on Jimaguayú and camagüeyana assumed the cavalry's transient command to its death. It went down after at the service of Máximo Gómez. In the action of the savannahs of Yaguaramas (August 4, 1876) the received injuries knocked it down of the horse and already in the ground he got wounded again. Even so he kept on fighting until he ran out of forces and bullets. He committed suicide to prevent that they took you prisoner. He was 36 years old. On December 10, 1873 he had been promoted to Brigadier. Henry Reeve got to Cuba in 1869, in the expedition of the vapor Perrit guided by another North American, Thomas Jordan, Brigadier of the army of his country. The lawns he got here Major General's degree and shortly afterwards Emmanuel of Quesada occupied the leadership of the Liberating Army in substitution of the major general.? For his acting in the independentist fights in the territory your name institutions like the Poly-Clinician and the Museum, as well as the medical brigade take internationalist trained for catastrophes and that he has rendered help in numerous countries, under the orientation of Fidel Castro. The Jovel Henry Reeve is example of love between the towns in spite of its political differences.

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