NUNEZ 



EMILIO NUNEZ 



Soldier; administrator; 

 Vice-president of the Re- 

 public since iQiy. 



Emilio Nunez y Rodriguez was born on 

 the plantation called "San Francisco" near 

 Sagua la Grande on the twenty-seventh 

 of December, 1855. His youth was spent 

 in the midst of revolutionary agitation and 

 he became a revolutionist by force both of 

 heredity and of environment. He had 

 hardly obtained his Bachelor's degree at 

 the Institute of Havana when the Revo- 

 lution of '68-' 7 8 broke out the first act of 

 the great struggle and he joined the 

 fighters. Figuring in the "Guerra Chi- 

 quita," he is said to have been the last 

 Cuban leader to come to terms with the 

 Spanish. From that time until the final 

 success in 1898, he never ceased his revo- 

 lutionary activities, either fighting in the 



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