Fidel Alejandro CastroMay 1958
A complex plan created by Cuban General Cantillo to directly attack Castros mountain base in the Sierra Maestra.
Cuba · Politics / 26th of July Movement. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.
A complex plan created by Cuban General Cantillo to directly attack Castros mountain base in the Sierra Maestra.
During the Battle of La Plata, Castros forces defeat an entire battalion.
The Battle of La Plata os part of Operation Verano, the summer offensive of 1958 launched by the Batistia Government during the Cuban Revolution.
the battle ends with the humiliating surrender of the assault battalion and the loss of some 500 Cuban army soldiers.
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