ANDRE 



ARMANDO ANDRE ALVARADO 



Soldier; official; Direc- 

 tor of Subsistence. 



Armando Andre Alvarado was born 

 in Key West, Florida, on the first of May, 

 1872. In 1892, when he was twenty years 

 old, he joined the Cuban revolution in the 

 Province of Matanzas, attaching himself to 

 the staff of General Antonio Maceo. Under 

 the orders of General Maceo he came to 

 Havana and carried out daring projects 

 including a visitation on General Valer- 

 iano Weyler in the very palace in the Plaza 

 de Armas which is now occupied by the 

 President of the Republic. He operated 

 later in the Province of Havana with 

 Generals Delgado and Castillo. 



In 1892 he was sent to the United States 

 under orders from General Castillo to con- 

 duct an expedition and obtain materials of 

 war. This commission he fulfilled within a 



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