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Narcisco Rodriguez
Narciso L贸pez (1797-1851) was an adventurer and soldier, famous for his attempts to liberate Cuba from Spain in the 1850s. more...
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Life in Venezuela, Cuba, and Spain
Narciso L贸pez was a born in Caracas, Venezuela to a wealthy merchant family. His mother's name was Ana Paula de Oriola. It is said that he was recruited by ruthless Spanish general Jos茅 Tom谩s Boves (Jos茅 Tom谩s Rodr铆guez) when as a young teenager he had been forcibly recruited from the ranks of the defeated independence forces abandoned by a fleeing Sim贸n Bol铆var at the city of Valencia .
When still a young man, he fought for the Spanish, at the Battle of Queseras del Medio , and Carabobo against the forces for independence lead by Sim贸n Bol铆var, Jos茅 Antonio P谩ez and others .
When the Spanish army withdrew in defeat in 1821 after the decisive Battle of Carabobo in present day Venezuela, L贸pez, who had fought at Carabobo, left with them as did many other battle survivors including Calixto Garcia de Luna e Izquierdo, who would be grandfather of Cuban Independence major general Calixto Garcia. Narciso L贸pez earned the rank of colonel at the early age of twenty-one and fought in the First Carlist War. After the war, L贸pez continued to serve the Spanish government in several administrative posts, including the Cortes for the city of Seville and as military governor in Madrid. L贸pez moved to Cuba as an assistant to the new governor-general, but lost his post when the governorship changed hands in 1843. In 1825 in Cuba he married the sister of the Count of Pozos Dulces, Maria Dolores with whom he had a son (Narciso L贸pez Frias). After failing in a few business ventures, he became a partisan of the anti-Spanish faction in Cuba. In 1848, during a Spanish arrest of Cuban revolutionaries, L贸pez fled to the United States.
Career as a filibuster
As soon as he arrived L贸pez began planning a filibustering expedition from the United States to liberate Cuba. He made contact with influential American politicians, including John L. O'Sullivan, an expansionist and coiner of the term Manifest Destiny. L贸pez recruited Cuban exiles in New York City and many other adventurers to his cause and in 1849 his expedition was poised to embark simultaneously from New Orleans and New York. However Zachary Taylor, who had renounced filibustering as a valid means of U.S. expansion, took steps against L贸pez. He issued orders to blockade and seize his ships. L贸pez鈥檚 first expedition never reached Cuba.
Undeterred by this setback, L贸pez decided to plan a new filibuster and to focus his recruiting effort on the southern United States. As a supporter of slavery himself, L贸pez realized the advantages for the South of a free Cuba. He and other Southerners hoped that Cuba would become a strong partner in the slavery and perhaps, like Texas, join the Union as a slave state. He moved his headquarters to New Orleans and tried to galvanize popular support by recruiting the influential men of the South to lead his expedition. He solicited the military help of Senator Jefferson Davis, who had distinguished himself in the Battle of Buena Vista, offering him a hundred thousand dollars and 鈥渁 very fine coffee plantation.鈥 Davis, to the great relief of his wife, turned him down, but he recommended one of his friends from the Mexican-American War, Major Robert E. Lee. Lee thought seriously about L贸pez鈥檚 offer, but eventually also decided not to become involved.
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