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captured, imprisoned for a time in the 

 Castle of San Severino, later in Havana 

 and finally exiled to Spain. There he en- 

 countered General Calixto Garcia with 

 whose assistance he succeeded in escaping 

 to France. Once in Paris he joined with 

 the famous Dr. Betances to execute the 

 commissions affecting France and England 

 which had been entrusted to him by Gen- 

 eral Garcia. These fulfilled, he went on to 

 New York where he joined the Revolution- 

 ary Committee working for the war. He 

 served in an expedition organized by Gen- 

 eral Francisco Carrillo which was detained 

 in Wilmington (Delaware) by the United 

 States authorities. The members of the 

 expedition were placed on trial, acquitted, 

 and set at liberty; whereupon Betancourt 

 joined three other expeditions one after 

 the other, all of which were stopped in the 

 same way by the American authorities. 



In a fourth expedition Betancourt and 

 his companions were taken prisoners in the 

 Bahamas by the British Cruiser Partridge 

 and imprisoned in Nassau where again they 

 were tried, acquitted, and set at liberty. 



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