Calixto García Íñiguez, born on this day in 1836, was a general in three separate Cuban uprisings for independence - the Ten Years' War, the Little War, and the War of 1895, which bled into the Spanish-American War.
García joined the Ten Years' War at the age of 18. Five years later, when surrounded by Spanish troops, he shot himself under the chin with a .45 caliber pistol to not give them the satisfaction of capturing him. Although the bullet went out of his forehead and knocked him unconscious, he survived. The wound left a great scar and gave him headaches for the rest of his life.
García played a key role in the ultimately successful War of 1895 and protested the subsequent lack of Cuban autonomy in the conclusion of the war (no Cuban was allowed to sign the terms of surrender and the Spanish leaders in Cuba were allowed to keep their posts in Santiago).
After American military commander William Shafter excluded Cubans from negotiations for the surrender of Santiago, declined to invite García to the surrender ceremonies, and let Spanish authorities remain in control of Santiago until the U.S. could establish a military government, García resigned from the rebel army in protest on July 17th, 1898.
García died of pneumonia on December 11th, 1898 while on a diplomatic mission in Washington, D.C. Today, his portrait is on the 50 Cuban peso banknote.
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I have to stop posting replies on instagram, people seem to want to argue with me, excited to take part in their first election, and i've already lived through 5 of them since becoming an adult, and with presence of mind for the last 7 of them.
thanks to @citrussy_capybara@hexbear.net for sharing the little Alt tag function to emotes with us in that other thread. I've since learned adding
#before everything makes the text much more legible, but it still isn't perfect.the text can be under with reversed order
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still funny how inconsistently these render tho
does it render with no text and just emoji? can also put multiple emoji per line
to, for instance, center one emoji over a doublewide
Not reliably, depending on browser
shame, it’s a fun tool, support will hopefully improve over time
the possibilities are endless once they work right
or stack two emoji
in a single text line