S A N G U I L Y 



MANUEL SANGUILY 



Soldier; author; adminis- 

 trator. 



Manuel Sanguily y Garritt was born 

 on the twenty-sixth of March, 1848, in Ha- 

 vana and had the good fortune to enter the 

 Colegio "El Salvador" while the famous 

 educator, Dr. Jose de la Luz Caballero was 

 at its head. Later he began the study of 

 the law at the University, but the Ten 

 Years' War (1868-78) supervening, he 

 left the academic life for the field. The 

 Peace of Zanjon (1878) found him in New 

 York where he had been sent in 1877 by the 

 Revolutionary Government with the rank 

 of Colonel to act as Secretary to his brother, 

 Major General Julio Sanguily. 



When peace was made he went to Spain 

 and in 1879 completed his law studies in 

 the University of Madrid, returning in 

 1880 to enter the office of Dr. Antonio 



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