COLLAZO 



ENRIQUE COLLAZO . 



Patriot; historian. 



Enrique Collazo was born in Santiago 

 de Cuba on the twenty -eighth of May, 1844. 

 At fourteen years of age he was sent to 

 Spain and entered the Colegio of Segovia as 

 artillery cadet. He finished the course with 

 the rank of Second Lieutenant (cadet) and 

 later was made full Second Lieutenant, 

 then Lieutenant. 



Two years later, in 1868, war broke out 

 in Cuba and young Collazo renounced his 

 military career in Spain, went to the 

 United States and enlisted as a soldier in 

 the Company "Riflers de la Libert ad" 

 under the command of Colonel Manuel 

 Suarez. In May of 1869 he arrived in 

 Cuba with the expedition of the Peril. 

 In 187 1 he went to Jamaica with a revolu- 

 tionary commission and in 1875 returned 



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