The Assembly deposes Carlos Manuel de Céspedes…

The Assembly deposes Carlos Manuel de Céspedes as president in 1873, replacing him with Cisneros, because of political and personal disagreements and Agramonte's death.

President of the Cuban revolutionary government since its inception, Céspedes is called Padre de la Patria (Father of the Country).

Having failed in repeated efforts to secure U.S. intervention, he has continued to employ guerilla tactics against the Spanish government forces.

Céspedes has been married twice, the first time to Maria del Carmen de Cespedes y del Castilo, with whom he had had Maria del Carmen, Oscar, and Carlos Manuel de Cespedes y Cespedes.

His second marriage is to Ana Maria de Quesada y Loinaz (1842–1910), with whom he has had three more children, Gloria (1871–?), Oscar, and Carlos Manuel de Céspedes y Quesada (1871–1939), who will be briefly President of Cuba after Gerardo Machado is deposed in 1933.

He had named Oscar, his fifth son, after his second child Oscar, who had been shot by a Spanish firing squad.

The Spanish authorities had wanted to exchange Oscar's life for Céspedes' resignation as President of the Republic of Cuba.

He had famously answered that Oscar was not his only son, because every Cuban who had died for the revolution he started, was also his son.