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Antonio Caba was a Dominican soldier and military leader. He was a hero in both the wars of Independence and Restoration against Haiti and Spain respectively.
Personal life
editHe was a resident in Taveras, located in Santiago. His wife was Rosa Fernández. He had been a soldier of the Dominican War of Independence.[1]
War against Spain
editIn September 1863, he formed his own troops with men recruited in the jurisdiction of Jarabacoa, and marched towards La Vega to put himself at the disposal of General Gregorio Luperón, recently appointed chief of Operations for the Southern and Eastern regions. Caba was sent to Monte Plata, a point of bitter fighting between the Spanish forces and Dominican revolutionaries. Courageous to the point of bordering on recklessness; responsible and punctual against all commitments, with a heightened sense of honor, he had to be among the who were with Luperón in the stubborn combat of the savannah San Pedro on January 23, 1864, a very expensive task for the Dominicans. In a bold advance, General Luperón was surrounded by the Spanish cavalry commanded at that moment by Juan Suero and Antonio Abad. In a titanic duel with the enemy, General Luperón was wounded by three sword blows; knocked off his mule and about to die from iron and lead. Caba advanced to the aid of his commander and in effort heroically, he offered his life to save that of his boss, who left the siege mounted on his mule that, although unsaddled, could be recovered by its owner. When talking about that episode and the courage demonstrated by Antonio Caba, some historians citea fragment of the submitted part by the Spanish captain Vicente de Ceballos, present in the combat, to Captain General Carlos de Vargas:[2]
...General Caba says in the report, he died like a brave man, defending himself until he could no longer hold on to the bayonets of the Hunters of the Queen's Battalion who were the ones who they killed him.
He was one of the four generals killed in combat in that war on the side of the patriots. The others were Gregorio de Lora, Santiago Mota and Benito Martínez.
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Mejía, Rafael Chaljub (2007). Diccionario Biográfico de los Restauradores de la República [Biographical Dictionary of the Restorers of the Republic] (in Spanish). Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. p. 53. ISBN 9789945859126.
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