Hearst, when informed by Frederic Remington, whom he had hired to furnish illustrations for his newspaper, that conditions in Cuba were not bad enough to warrant hostilities, allegedly replied, “You furnish the pictures and I'll furnish the war”.
His 11th great grandfather was Rodrigo del Junco the Spanish Governor of Florida in 1592 and he is 2nd-great-grand-nephew of General Luis Marcano-Alvarez who fought in the Cuban War of Independence.
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Leoncio Vidal y Caro (September 12, 1864 - March 23, 1896) was a Cuban revolutionary that fought in the Cuban War of Independence.