T AM A YO 



DIEGO TAMAYO Y FIGUEREDO 



Soldier; physician; teacher. 



Diego Tamayo y Figueredo was born 

 in Bayamo on the twelfth of October, 1853, 

 and was educated in the Colegio of Belen 

 in Havana where he obtained the Bachelor's 

 degree in 1868. A few months later the 

 Ten Years' War broke out and Tamayo 

 was one of those who joined the Cuban 

 colors at Demajagua on the tenth of Octo- 

 ber of that year, being then fifteen years 

 old, the youngest in the ranks. He took an 

 active part in the war, being on the Staff of 

 General Carlos M. de Cespedes until 1872, 

 when, incapacitated by malaria, he was 

 taken prisoner and expatriated. 



Transported to Spain he there entered 

 the University of Barcelona and obtained 

 the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1878. 

 Soon after this the Peace of Zanjon was 



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