BARRERAS 



ALBERTO BARRERAS FERNANDEZ 



Soldier; educator; administrator . 



Alberto Barreras Fernandez was 

 born on the twenty-seventh of February, 

 1870, in Havana and there obtained his 

 education, pursuing the courses leading 

 to the Bachelor's degree in the Jesuit 

 Colegio of Belen and continuing the study 

 of law, though not completing the course, 

 in the University. 



During the War of Independence he 

 was imprisoned for conspiring against the 

 Spanish rule and in favor of Cuban liberty, 

 and was later expelled from Cuba. Where- 

 upon he gave himself to organizing revo- 

 lutionary clubs in the United States and 

 Mexico, devoting his energy particularly 

 to providing resources for the Cuban army 

 and to the propaganda of emancipation. 



In 1897 he joined a military expedition 



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