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out Serior Freyre de Andrade left Cuba and 

 went to the United States where in due 

 course he placed himself under the direc- 

 tion of Tomas Estrada Palma who was 

 guiding the Revolutionary forces in New 

 York. He embarked on the third expedi- 

 tion of the Dauntless landing in Rio Hondo 

 de San Juan on the thirteenth of October, 

 1896. He then served under General 

 Maximo Gomez who placed him in com- 

 mand of his Cavalry. In the same year 

 the Council of Government named him 

 Auditor General of the Army Legal Staff 

 attached to General Headquarters. In 

 September, 1897, he was elected Represen- 

 tative of the Fifth Army Corps in the 

 Second Legislative Assembly of the Rev- 

 olution which met at Yaya, Camagiiey. 

 At the close of the Assembly the Council 

 appointed him chief of the Military Legal 

 Staff with the rank of Brigadier General, 

 and at the end of the war he was elected 

 to represent the Fifth Army Corps in the 

 last Assembly of the Revolution which 

 met, first in Santa Cruz del Sur and later 

 in Cerro in Havana of which Assembly 



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