Cuban operations n the Ten Years' War,…

Cuban operations n the Ten Years' War, havong peaked in the years 1872 and 1873, are limited to the regions of Camagüey and Oriente after the death of Ignacio Agramonte and the destitution of Carlos Manuel de Céspedes,

As the new Cuban government had not allowed Céspedes to go into exile and had denied him an escort, he has retreated to a mountain refuge, San Lorenzo.

Here, he had met a widow, Francisca (Panchita) Rodriguez, with whom he had become lovers and produced a son, Manuel Francisco de Céspedes y Rodriguez.

Céspedes is surprised and killed by a swift-moving patrol of Spanish troops on February 27, 1874.