R E C I O 



ENRIQUE RECIO Y AGUERO 



Soldier; surveyor; public man. 



Enrique Recio y AGUERO.was born on 

 the twenty-second of March, 1877, in 

 Callao, Peru. His parents were Cubans 

 and in the early childhood of the boy re- 

 turned to their native island where he re- 

 ceived his early education, obtaining the 

 degree of Bachelor in Camaguey in 1894. 



Upon the outbreak of the War for In- 

 dependence in 1895, at that time a student 

 in the University of Havana, he followed 

 the example of his father and joined the 

 Army of Liberation as soldier in the Fourth 

 Cavalry troop "Agramonte." Wounded 

 in the first attack on Cascorro, he was pro- 

 moted to a second-lieutenancy. In the 

 course of the war, he suffered several sub- 

 sequent wounds one of which left his right 



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