The Moncada Barracks were military barracks in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba named after General Guillermo Moncada, a hero of the Cuban War of Independence. On 26 July 1953, the barracks was the site of an armed attack by a small group of revolutionaries led by Fidel Castro.

On July 26, 1953, Cuba exploded into revolution when Fidel Castro and about 140 rebels attacked the federal garrison at Moncada.

Moncada was the second largest military garrison in Cuba. Although Castro's assault failed, it earned him recognition as a leader of the opposition against Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista.

At last, on July 26 th of 1953, at the closing of Santiago’s yearly carnival, 150 rebels with two girls for nurses and a physician, disguised themselves in army uniforms and stormed the island’s second largest military encampment, the Moncada fort, headquarters of the 1,000 troops of the Maceo regiment. The plan was to infiltrate the ...

Batista’s coup thwarted Castro’s ambitions for a parliamentary career, and he began organizing a small group of followers for his ill-fated attack on the Moncada military barracks in Oriente Province on July 26, 1953.

Jul 26, 2018 · The Moncada barracks in Santiago de Cuba was the base for the Antonio Maceo regiment, with over 1,000 men. Castro targeted this army base believing that his small force of around 130 men and 2 women (the exact number of men remains impossible to verify) could take the fortress by surprise.

Jul 25, 2023 · Seven things to read and watch on the 70th anniversary of the military assault that sparked six years of domestic terrorism in Cuba and 64 years and counting of dictatorship. A group of Cubans led by Fidel Castro assaulted the barracks in Santiago de Cuba.

The assault on the Moncada Barracks, in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba, was part of an armed action carried out on July 26, 1953 by a group of young people from the Orthodox Party led by lawyer Fidel Castro in order to overthrow the dictator Fulgencio Batista.

From military barracks to museum and school—go back to the beginning of Fidel Castro's revolution with a tour of one of Cuba's most famous historic sites. Learn about political upheaval on location.

The 26th of July Movement's name originated from the failed attack on the Moncada Barracks, an army facility in the city of Santiago de Cuba, on 26 July 1953. [6] This attack was led by a young Fidel Castro, who was a legislative candidate in a free election that had been cancelled by Batista. [7]