Attack on the Moncada Barracks

When

26 Jul 1953

Kind

Battle

Coordinates

20.03° N, 75.82° W

Description

Attack of the Cuban revolutionary movement against the government of Fulgencio Batista at the Moncada Barracks in Santiago de Cuba on July 26, 1953

1953 attack starting the Cuban Revolution

The Moncada Barracks were military barracks in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba named after General Guillermo Moncada, a hero of the Cuban War of Independence. On 26 July 1953, the barracks was the site of an armed attack by a small group of revolutionaries led by Fidel Castro. That day a simultaneous attack was carried out on the Carlos M. de Cespedes Barracks in Bayamo directed by Raúl Martínez Ararás by order of Castro.

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• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Fidel Castro and his brother lead a disastrous assault on the Moncada Barracks, preliminary to the Cuban Revolution”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “attaque manquée de la caserne de Moncada dans le sud-est, à Santiago de Cuba, par Fidel Castro et 165 jeunes partisans”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Фидель Кастро начал борьбу за освобождение Кубы штурмом казармы Монкада в Сантьяго де Куба”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page