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field or directing agitation in Cuba or 

 the United States. He gained the rank of 

 Colonel as an aide to General Marti in 

 charge of the Department of Expeditions 

 obtaining and transporting to the revolu- 

 tionists in the field, supplies, arms, and 

 munitions and by his vigorous prosecution 

 of these important duties gained in 1895 

 the rank of General at the head of the 

 Department of Expeditions. 



Meantime General Nunez had obtained 

 his degree in dental medicine and was 

 practicing his profession in Philadelphia. 

 Sometime before the close of the Revolu- 

 tion he returned to Cuba and became the 

 Representative in the Assembly of Santa 

 Cruz del Sur of the Fourth Corps of the 

 Army of Liberation. Upon the dissolu- 

 tion of the Assembly of Representatives of 

 the Army, in 1899, he was appointed by 

 General Brooke, Military Governor under 

 the American Intervention, to go to Phila- 

 delphia to represent Cuba in the Com- 

 mercial Congress. In the same year he 

 was elected a member of the Constituent 

 Convention for the Province of Havana 



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