- revolution,
escopeteros were
essential scouts and
pickets from the
Sierra Maestra and
other mountain ranges to the plains. The "
escopeteros" were responsible...
- ISBN 0-87348-947-0, ISBN 0-87348-948-9. Encinosa,
Enrique G. 1989. El
Escopetero Chapter in Escambray: La
Guerra Olvidada, Un
Libro Historico de Los Combatientes...
-
armed irregulars known as
escopeteros har****ed Batista's
forces in the
forests and
mountains of
Oriente Province. The
escopeteros also
provided direct military...
- British, Austrian,
Spanish (like the
Escopeteros Voluntarios de Cadiz,
formed in 1804, or the Compañía de
Escopeteros de las Salinas,
among others) and Prussian...
-
escabeche from escabeche, "pickle" <
Arabic ****ukkabáǧ.
escopeteros from
Spanish escopetero, "musketeer", from
escopeta "shotgun" <
italian schioppetto...
-
Batista régime, with
their main
forces supported by
numerous poorly armed escopeteros and the well-armed
fighters of
Frank País'
urban organization. Growing...
- 1958
February Raúl
Castro takes leadership of
about 500 pre-existing
Escopeteros guerrillas and
opens a
front in the
Sierra de
Cristal on Oriente's north...
-
guerrilla war in the
Sierra Maestra.
During two years, the
poorly armed escopeteros, at
times fewer than 200 men, won
victories against Fulgencio Batista's...
- columns, and in
collaboration with
other groups in the
central provinces,
Escopeteros on the foot-hills and plains, and the
urban resistance,
eventually overthrew...
-
followers penetrated the
Sierra Maestra with silence,
terrifying local Escopeteros, who
without time to
react or
appropriate weapons, fled
before his forces;...
