During the ten years' war, his cavalry escort was composed entirely of colored men.

Throughout his latest reign in the island he kept black soldiers constantly on guard at the gates of the government palace.

While the illustrated papers of Spain were caricaturing: the insurgents as coal-black demons with horns and forked toe nails, burning canefields and butchering innocent Spaniards, the Spanish General chose them for his bodyguards.
[Illustration: CUBAN WOMAN CAVALRY.] ONE OF THE GREATEST GENERALS.
One of the greatest Generals of the day, considering the environment, was Antonio Maceo, the Cuban mulatto hero, who, for two years, kept the Spanish army at bay or led them a lively quickstep through the western provinces to the very gates of Havana.

As swift on the march as Sheridan or Stonewall Jackson, as wary and prudent as Grant himself, he had inspirations of military genius whenever a crisis arose.

It is not generally known that Martinez Campos, who owed his final defeat at Colisea to Maceo, was a second cousin of this black man.