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| Coup d'Etat Batista, Fulgenico |  |
| April A Coup by hundreds of career officers led by Col. Barquin (then Vice Chair of the Inter-American Defense Board in Washington and Cuban Military Attach‚ of Sea, Air and Land to the US) is frustrated by Rios Morejon |
| April Batista had given the orders for Barquin to become General and Chief of the Army but it is too late, Barquin decides to move forward with the Coup to rescue the morale of the Armed Forces and the Cuban people |
| April La Conspiraci˘n de los Puros results in the imprisonment of the top commanding brass of the Armed Forces and the closing of the military academies |
| April The Coup breaks the backbone of the Cuban Armed Forces, the officers are sentenced to the maximum terms allowed by Cuban Martial Law, Barquin is sentenced to solitary confinement for 8 years |
| April Without Barquin's officers the army's ability to combat the revolutionary insurgents is severely curtailed |
| 2nd Dec Sierra Maestra A party of 82 badly trained revolutionaries led by Castro, lands in a yacht named Granma and tries to start an armed resistance movement in the Sierra Maestra |
| Coup d'Etat Castro Ruz, Fidel Alejandro | |
| Dec Lands in Cuba at the head of a revolutionary group & begins a campaign against Batista |
| 2nd Dec Sierra Maestra A party of 82 badly trained revolutionaries led by Castro, lands in a yacht named Granma and tries to start an armed resistance movement in the Sierra Maestra |
| 2nd Dec Sierra Maestra Castro's yacht had come from Mexico, where Castro had been exiled to, and where his army was strengthened with the help of Ernesto Che Guevara |
| Coup d'Etat Morejon, Rios | |
| April A Coup by hundreds of career officers led by Col. Barquin (then Vice Chair of the Inter-American Defense Board in Washington and Cuban Military Attach‚ of Sea, Air and Land to the US) is frustrated by Rios Morejon |
| Invasion of Cuba Castro Ruz, Fidel Alejandro | |
| Dec Organizes, trains & leads for the guerrilla invasion of Cuba |
