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Cuban Revolution
	File:Raulche2.jpg; Raúl Castro (left), with his arm around his second-in-command, Ernesto "Che" Guevara, in their Sierra de Cristal mountain stronghold in Oriente Province, Cuba, in 1958
Date	26 July 1953 – 1 January 1959 (5 years, 5 months and 6 days)
Location	Cuba
Result	26th of July Movement victory Overthrow of Fulgencio Batista's government; Establishment of a revolutionary government led by Fidel Castro; United States embargo against Cuba; Severance and end of Cuba–United States relations; Counterrevolution in the Escambray; Bay of Pigs Invasion;
Belligerents
File:Flag of Cuba sky blue.svg Cuban Government Cuban Armed Forces; Supported by: [[\|]] [[\|]]	26th of July Movement Supported by:
Commanders and leaders
Fulgencio Batista; Eulogio Cantillo; José Quevedo Pérez; Alberto del Río Chaviano; Joaquín Casillas ; Cornelio Rojas ; Fernández Suero; Cándido Hernández; Alfredo Abon Lee	Fidel Castro; Raúl Castro; Che Guevara; Abel Santamaría ; Camilo Cienfuegos; Huber Matos; Juan Almeida Bosque; Frank País †; René Ramos Latour †; Roberto Rodriguez †; Rolando Cubela Secades; Humberto Sori Marín; Alfonso Perez Leon; Template:Flagdeco/core Eloy Gutiérrez Menoyo; Template:Flagdeco/core William Alexander Morgan File:Flag of the Revolutionary Directorate of 13 March.png José Antonio Echeverría †; File:Infobox PSP.png Reynol Garcia
Strength
20,000 (1958)	3,000 (1958)
Casualties and losses
2,000 killedArms captured: 1 M4 Sherman tank 12 mortars 2 bazookas 12 machine guns 21 light machine guns 142 M-1 rifles 200 Dominican Cristobal submachine guns	1,000 killed
	Thousands of dissidents arrested and murdered by Batista's government; unknown number of people executed by the Rebel Army

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↑ Jacob Bercovitch and Richard Jackson (1997). International Conflict: A Chronological Encyclopedia of Conflicts and Their Management, 1945–1995. Congressional Quarterly.
↑ Singer, Joel David and Small, Melvin (1974). The Wages of War, 1816–1965. Inter-University Consortium for Political Research.
↑ Eckhardt, William, in Sivard, Ruth Leger (1987). World Military and Social Expenditures, 1987–88 (12th edition). World Priorities.
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[3] Jacob Bercovitch and Richard Jackson (1997). International Conflict: A Chronological Encyclopedia of Conflicts and Their Management, 1945–1995. Congressional Quarterly.

[4] Singer, Joel David and Small, Melvin (1974). The Wages of War, 1816–1965. Inter-University Consortium for Political Research.

[5] Eckhardt, William, in Sivard, Ruth Leger (1987). World Military and Social Expenditures, 1987–88 (12th edition). World Priorities.

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