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revolution where he cooperated with Jose 

 Maceo, Emilio Nunez, Jose Marti and other 

 leaders, to the rank of Major. 



In 1880 he was obliged by the persistent 

 persecution of the Spanish authorities to 

 leave Cuba, and he sailed to New York 

 where he joined the revolutionary leader 

 Calixto Garcia. With a group of revolu- 

 tionists including Carlos Roloff and Jose 

 Maria Aguirre he went to Kingston, Ja- 

 maica, to organize an expedition directed to 

 Santa Clara. The " Little War" came, how- 

 ever, to an unsuccessful end and he turned 

 for a time to journalism, contributing to 

 the Deber of Kingston and La Re public a and 

 El Vara of Key West, acting also as secre- 

 tary to Antonio Maceo. In the following 

 year Hernandez went with a group of 

 revolutionaries to Honduras and there 

 continued his journalistic work in La Paz, 

 El Vara, and El Renacimiento. 



In 1883 he was appointed Professor in 

 the School of Medicine of Tegucigalpa and 

 there continued his labors as a revolution- 

 ist, serving as envoy of Generals Antonio 

 Maceo and Maximo Gomez to the govern- 



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