TORRIENTE 



COSME DE LA TORRIENTE 



Soldier; diplomat; lawyer; 

 statesman. 



COSME DE LA TORRIENTE Y PERAZA (son 



of Leandro and Maria Ignacia) was born 

 on the estate of his father, "La Isabel," 

 near Jovellanos in the Province of Matan- 

 zas on the twenty-seventh of June, 1872. 

 He was educated in the Institute of Ma- 

 tanzas where he completed the course for 

 the Bachelor's degree and at the Univer- 

 sity of Havana, where he pursued the 

 studies for the law until 1895 when he 

 joined the Revolution which broke out on 

 the twenty-fourth of February of that year. 

 He had obtained the degree of Licentiate 

 in Philosophy and Letters in 1892, for he 

 had pursued this course simultaneously 

 with that of law, and he obtained the 

 degree of Licentiate in Law on his return 

 from the battlefield at the close of 1898. 



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