Enrique Collazo Tejada (28 May 1848 - 13 March 1925)Chao, R. E. (2009). Baraguá: Insurgents and Exiles in Cuba and New York During the Ten Year War on Independence (1868-1878). United States: Dupont Circle Editions. was a Cuban writer, army general, and distinguished veteran of the Ten Years' War and War of Independence.Cuba: A Short History (Cambridge History of Latin America). (1993). United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press.
Early history Enrique Collazo y Tejada was born in Santiago de Cuba on 28 May 1848.Collazo, E. (1981). Cuba independiente. United States: Editorial Oriente. He was the elder brother of Guillermo Collazo Tejada and Tomás Collazo Tejada.The Chicago Chronicle. (7 July 1895). Cuba. Collazo's Expedition Plans.; 1895. Newspapers.com. Retrieved June 2, 2024, from https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-chicago-chronicle-cuba-collazos-ex/148542541/
During his early years, Collazo lived in Spain and attended the Academia de Artilleria of Segovia, a Spanish military academy from which he graduated in 1866.Scientific American. (1896). United States: Scientific American, Incorporated.
Ten Years' War He left Spain in 1869 to join the Cuban uprising which became the first war of independence, the Ten Years' War.Kapcia, A. (2022). Historical Dictionary of Cuba. United States: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. Collazo was a troop commander in the Cuban Liberation Army.Dyal, D. H. (1996). Historical Dictionary of the Spanish American War. United Kingdom: Bloomsbury Publishing. He became Gen. Máximo Gómez's adjutant and reached the rank of colonel.
In 1893, Collazo wrote and published Desde Yara basta el Zanjón. Aputanciones históricas () in Havana.General History of the Caribbean. (1999). United Kingdom: Unesco.
The Necessary War Col. Enrique Collazo was a member of the third Revolutionary Cuban Junta. Collazo, along with José Martí and Gen. Máximo Gómez, signed the orders to commence the revolution. General Collazo led insurgent forces in the 1895 War of Independence.NA, N. (2019). General History of the Caribbean UNESCO Volume 6: Methodology and Historiography of the Caribbean. United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan US.
In 1898, he was appointed a brigadier general of the Mayarí brigade in the Cuban Liberation Army.Berner, B. K. (1998). The Spanish-American War: A Historical Dictionary. United Kingdom: Scarecrow Press.
Spanish–American War Collazo was a member of the staff of the late Gen. Calixto García and his trusted aide.The News and Advance. (June 23, 1899). A Diatribe from General Enrique Collazo; 1899. Newspapers.com. Retrieved June 1, 2024, from https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-news-and-advance-a-diatribe-from-gen/148515937/ Preceding the outbreak of the Spanish–American War, he escorted U.S. Army lieutenant Andrew S. Rowan on his mission to Cuba to deliver a message to General García. Collazo also accompanied him on his return to the U.S.McClure's Magazine. (1898). United States: S. S. McClure, Limited.
In 1905, he published Los Americanos en Cuba (), analyzing U.S. intervention in Cuba during the Spanish-American War.General History of the Caribbean. (1999). United Kingdom: Unesco.
Politics Collazo was elected in 1909 to represent the Havana district in the Cuban House of Representatives, where he served until 1911.
He published Cuba Heroica () in 1912.
Death Enrique Collazo y Tejada died in Havana, Cuba on 13 March 1925.Tucker, S. (2009). The Encyclopedia of the Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars: A Political, Social, and Military History. United States: ABC-CLIO.
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