Former military barracks attacked to begin the Cuban Revolution
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Attack on the Moncada Barracks
Part of the Cuban Revolution
The Moncada Barracks in 2013 after extensive renovation
Date
26 July 1953
Location
Santiago de Cuba, Cuba
Result
Government victory
Rebels forced to retreat
Belligerents
Republic of Cuba
Partido Ortodoxo
Commanders and leaders
Alberto del Rio Chaviano
Fidel Castro Abel Santamaría Lester Rodriguez
Strength
400
136 (additional 24 in Bayamo)
Casualties and losses
19 killed (1 in Bayamo) 30 wounded (2 in Bayamo)
61 killed (10 executed in Bayamo) 57 prosecuted (6 in absentia)
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t
e
Cuban Revolution
Moncada Barracks
Domingo Goicuria
Santiago de Cuba
Alegría de Pío
1st La Plata
Havana Presidential Palace
Humboldt 7
Corynthia
El Uvero
Cienfuegos
April 9 strike
Santo Domingo
Verano
2nd La Plata
Jigüe
Las Mercedes
Yaguajay
Guisa
Santa Clara
Aftermath
Escambray rebellion
Second National Front of Escambray
La Coubre explosion
Bay of Pigs
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. The attack failed and the surviving revolutionaries were imprisoned. This armed attack is widely accepted as the beginning of the Cuban Revolution. The date on which the attack took place, 26 July, was adopted by Castro as the name for his revolutionary movement, Movimiento 26 Julio (abbreviated as M-26-7),[1] which eventually toppled the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista on 1 January 1959.
^"26th of July Movement | Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro & Che Guevara". www.britannica.com. Retrieved 17 April 2024.
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