Martí's pilgrimage through the Americas in the…

Martí's pilgrimage through the Americas in the 1880s and early 1890s has helped to unite and organize the Cubans, and with Gomez and Maceo he works tirelessly toward the realization of Cuban independence.

So well have they organized the anti-Spanish forces that their order for the uprising on February 24, 1895, assures the ultimate expulsion of Spain from the island.

The war, however, is not the quick and decisive struggle that Martí has sought.

It takes his life on May 19, 1895, drags on for three more years, and eventually prompts the United States intervention (1899-1902) that he had feared.