TORRIENTE 



General Jose Manuel Capote. He took 

 part also in the fighting along the Gibara- 

 Holguin line between the forces of General 

 Calixto Garcia and the Spanish General 

 Luque, which continued until August 

 seventeenth because the opposing forces 

 were not aware that the Peace Protocol 

 had been signed in Washington on the 

 twelfth. 



When the Spanish' sovereignty ceased 

 General Ludlow, the Military Governor of 

 Havana, appointed Torriente Secretary of 

 the Civil Government and later Acting 

 Governor of the Province. In August, 

 1899, he was appointed Magistrate of the 

 Provincial Courts (Court of Appeals) of 

 Santa Clara and in 1900 he assumed similar 

 duties in Matanzas, his native Province. 

 There he remained until 1903 when Presi- 

 dent Estrada Palma appointed him Secre- 

 tary of Legation at Madrid, where he 

 served as Charge d'Affaires until some time 

 later when he was appointed Minister, and 

 also Envoy Extraordinary, to represent the 

 Republic of Cuba at the wedding of King 

 Alfonso who conferred upon him on that 



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