GOMEZ 



strenuous times Gomez lived a life of in- 

 cessant toil and combat at one period, 

 during General Weyler's campaign in the 

 Sancti Spiritus region, fighting no fewer 

 than seventeen minor engagements in one 

 day. 



It was General G6mez' good fortune in all 

 these combats, great and small, never to 

 have been defeated, though often engaged 

 with much superior forces of the enemy 

 and on one occasion, when the force at his 

 command amounted only to seventy men, 

 taking captive no fewer than two hundred 

 Spanish cavalry, men, horses, and equip- 

 ment. 



At the close of the war, General Gomez 

 was elected Representative to the famous 

 Last Assembly of the Revolution which 

 met first in Santa Cruz del Sur and later 

 in the Cerro at Havana. He was also a 

 member of the commission which was sent 

 to Washington to obtain a settlement of 

 the soldiers' claims for back pay, his asso- 

 ciates being Generals Calixto Garcia, Gon- 

 zalez Lanuza, Villalon and Sanguily. In 

 1898 he was appointed Governor of Las 



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