e/Revolutionary Committee of Puerto Rico

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has glosseng: The Revolutionary Committee of Puerto Rico was founded by Juan Ruis Rivera, Ramón Emeterio Betances and Jose Francisco Basora in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. The committee was founded on January 8, 1867, and composed of Puerto Rican and Dominican patriots. The goal of the committee was to create a united effort by Cubans and Puerto Ricans to win independence from Spain. Early in the Cuban Ten Years War, the Revolutionary Committee gave financial support, and weaponry to the Cuban independence efforts. Such weaponry included 400 Enfield rifles, 45 snider rifles, 110 carbines, 87 handguns and one cannon with 200 shells, culminated from hidden caches on Saint Thomas, Curaçao and Haiti.
lexicalizationeng: Revolutionary Committee of Puerto Rico
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