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unusual facts about Máximo Gómez


Máximo Gómez

The British alternative rock band Maxïmo Park, named themselves after a park in Florida which was named in his honour.


Henry Howard Whitney

In 1898, under orders from the Secretary of War, he disguised himself as an English sailor, communicated with General Máximo Gómez, and made a military reconnaissance of the island of Puerto Rico, thereby gaining the information upon which General Nelson A. Miles based the Puerto Rican Campaign.


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