CARBONELL 



JOSE MANUEL CARBONELL 



Soldier; author; orator. 



Jose Manuel Carbonell y Rivero was 

 born in July, 1880, in Alquizar, Province 

 of Havana. When he was an infant his 

 parents moved to the United States where 

 he obtained his early education. From his 

 boyhood he was a revolutionist and a dis- 

 ciple of Jose Marti, "the liberator. " When 

 the War of Independence broke out Car- 

 bonell, then fifteen years old, joined one 

 of the expeditions fitted out in the United 

 States and remained in the field for a time. 

 Later he returned to Tampa, Florida, and 

 served with Pastor Moinelo, Carlos Bois- 

 sier, Octavio Garcia Campos, and Fernando 

 de Zayas in the campaign of propaganda, 

 founding and editing the magazine, El 

 expedicionario, and contributing to various 

 other periodicals. 



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