Braulio Peña

Ten Years' War By the 1870s, he joined the Ten Years' War, Cuba's first war of independence which began in 1868, becoming a lieutenant colonel.

Following the war's end, he escaped to St. Thomas, later settling in Florida and becoming a cigar maker.

Expeditions He organized many armed expeditions for the insurrection from the United States. In March 1895, he boarded the tug Commodore from Charleston, South Carolina in command of an expedition that successfully landed on the island of Cuba. The steamer was libeled for undertaking a foreign voyage, but the case never reached trial. Braulo Peña headed another filibustering expedition to Cuba to aid the military operations in the summer of 1895. He and 20 accomplices were arrested in Penns Grove, New Jersey and taken to Wilmington, Delaware on August 30, 1895, for their involvement in the violation of the U.S. neutrality laws. He faced the United States District Court for the District of Delaware on September 23, 1895, and was later released on bail. That year, Máximo Gómez made him a brigadier general and appointed him the chief of cavalry in the Cuban Liberation Army. The cavalry's horses were mostly those stolen from the Spanish troops. Peña, in Maj. Louis V. Caziarc's annual report, was noted as Chief of the Puerto Príncipe Rural Guard from July 1900 to December 1901, under Commander Hatfield. He oversaw 252 officers and men with various staff members including an assistant captain and inspector.

Braulio Peña, Second in Command of the Second Regiment of the Cuban Rural Guard, retired in 1906 due to declining health.

Death Braulio Peña died in Puerto Príncipe (now Camagüey), Cuba on April 25, 1924.