Domingo de Goicouria
Cuban revolutionary and army general
Domingo de Goicouria (1804 - May 7, 1870) was a Cuban revolutionary and army general who was executed during the Ten Years' War.
Early life
Domingo de Goicouria y Cabrera was born to Spanish immigrants of the Basque region in Havana, Spanish Cuba in 1804.
He attended top schools in Havana and in the Spanish cities of Bilbao and La Coruña, receiving a privileged education throughout the 1820s.
His father was Valentin de Goicouria, a wealthy merchant and landowner. Acting as an agent for his father's Havana-based firm, Goicouria & Son, he resided in Birmingham from 1835 to 1837.
Finding his own success in commerce, he dedicated much of his fortune to the cause of freeing Cuba from Spanish rule.
The First Cuban Junta
Domingo De Goicouria was among the key members of the first Cuban Junta which was founded in New York City in 1848.
López Expedition
Goicouria funded the 1850 López Expedition to liberate Cuba as the second command of Venezuelan filibuster Narciso López. He happened to be in Havana when it failed and was captured and sentenced to be executed once the Spanish learned of his role. However, his sentence was commuted to expatriation to Spain, where he resided in Seville under the watch of Spanish authorities.
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