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Cuban Revolution

José Antonio Echeverría holding a Cuban Flag at the University of Havana
Date26 July 19531 January 1959
(5 years, 5 months and 6 days)
Location
Result

Student Revolutionary Directorate victory

Belligerents

 Cuba

Supported by:

Student Revolutionary Directorate
Second National Front of Escambray
Popular Socialist Party
Moncada Barracks Attackers


Supported by:
Commanders and leaders
Strength
20,000 (1958) 3,000 (1958)
Casualties and losses
2,000 killed[1]
Arms captured:
1,000 killed[1]
Thousands of civilians tortured and murdered by Batista's government; unknown number of people executed by the Rebel Army[3][4][5][6]
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  2. ^ Jowett, Philip (2019). Liberty or Death: Latin American Conflicts, 1900–70. p. 309.
  3. ^ Jacob Bercovitch and Richard Jackson (1997). International Conflict: A Chronological Encyclopedia of Conflicts and Their Management, 1945–1995. Congressional Quarterly.
  4. ^ Singer, Joel David and Small, Melvin (1974). The Wages of War, 1816–1965. Inter-University Consortium for Political Research.
  5. ^ Eckhardt, William, in Sivard, Ruth Leger (1987). World Military and Social Expenditures, 1987–88 (12th edition). World Priorities.
  6. ^ "Massacres during Batista's Dictatorship". 26 January 2017. Archived from the original on 9 September 2018. Retrieved 26 January 2019.