Ignacio Agramonte

Ignacio Agramonte y Loynaz was born in Camagüey on December 23, 1841. Earning his doctorate in law in Havana, Agramonte joined the 1868 insurrection, playing an indispensable role at the Assembly of Guáimaro where he drafted Cuba's first democratic republican constitution.

Taking direct command of the Camagüey division, Agramonte turned ordinary ranchers into the most disciplined cavalry force in the Americas. His daring rescue of Brigadier Julio Sanguily in 1871 with thirty horsemen remains legendary. He fell in battle at Jimaguayú in 1873 at age thirty-one.