26 Jul 1953 Jahr - Attack on Moncada Barracks
Beschreibung:
-in Oriente province
-Fidel + Raúl Castro
-160 rebels (mainly from Ortodoxo youth movement)
-plan: quickly capture barracks, rousing call to people (radio), rely on bold actions to inspire spontaneous uprising, arm masses with captured weapons, spread revolution throughout Cuba, avoid bloodshed
-complete failure: several killed in attack, remaining attackers captured, tortured + killed
-Castro imprisoned
-M-26-7 (Movimiento 26 de Julio - Castro's revolutionary group) later named after date of failed attack
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