Henry Reeve

Henry Mike Reeve Carroll (April 4, 1850 – August 4, 1876) was a brigadier general in Cuba's (Army of Liberation) – more commonly known as the – during the Ten Years' War (1868–1878). In his youth, he was a drummer boy in the Union Army during the American Civil War. During his entire service in Cuba, he wore his US Army uniform. Reeve participated in approximately 400 engagements against Spanish forces, rising through the ranks quickly. Ignacio Agramonte nicknamed him "El Inglesito" ("The Little Englishman") due to his fair complexion and foreign origin.

Biography He was born in Brooklyn, New York, United States, on April 4, 1850, son of Alexander Reeve and Maddie Carroll, and died in Matanzas, Cuba on August 4, 1876.

The expedition arrived in the port of Nipe, Cuba on May 11, 1869, eight months after the beginning of the war. That same day this troop entered into its first combat with the enemy and only five days later, on May 16, Reeve received his first battle wound, in the region of the landing itself.

On May 20, the expedition entered into another encounter with the enemy in El Canalito and almost immediately another in La Cuaba, near Holguín. The expedition was forced to retreat to Las Calabazas.