Máximo Gómez in The Spanish-American War

Máximo Gómez in The Spanish-American War

Máximo Gómez (1836–1905) was general who led Cuban insurgents against the Spanish colonial government in the Ten Years' War (1868–1878).

He later served as a key leader of the Cuban Liberation Army, which fought a difficult three-year war against Spanish forces before the United States intervened in 1898.