HERNANDEZ 



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CHARLES HERNANDEZ 



Soldier; official. 



Charles Hernandez y Sandrino was 



born on the sixth of May, 1867, in Pinar del 

 Rio and spent his youth partly in Cuba, 

 partly in Santo Domingo, and partly in the 

 United States where he obtained his educa- 

 tion. Here also he gained his first military 

 training* in the Massachusetts National 

 Guard which he joined in 1887. Later he 

 went to Florida where he studied agricul- 

 ture in general and especially tobacco 

 culture. 



Hernandez enjoyed the confidence of 

 Jose Marti, "the apostle of Cuban free- 

 dom," who commissioned him in 1894 to 

 make preparations for the Revolution. 

 He brought to Cuba the first orders of 

 General Maximo Gomez, calling upon all 

 the leaders of 1868-78 (the Ten Years' 



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