Granma landing

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Granma landing was the 1956 seaborne arrival in Cuba of Fidel Castro and his fellow revolutionaries aboard the yacht Granma, marking a pivotal starting point of the Cuban Revolution.

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Granma landing canonical 3
Granma landing (1956) 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf event of the Cuban Revolution
historical event
military landing
category 1956 in Cuba
Cuban Revolution
Landings in amphibious warfare
commander Fidel Castro
commemoratedBy Granma Province
Granma (Cuban Communist Party newspaper)
surface form: Granma newspaper
country Cuba
date 1956-12-02
describedAs seaborne arrival of Cuban revolutionaries in 1956
followedBy Alegría de Pío skirmish
goal to launch an armed uprising against Fulgencio Batista
hasHistoricalPeriod 1950s in Cuba
Cold War
surface form: Cold War era
hasLanguageOfContext Spanish
hasMotive establishment of a revolutionary government in Cuba
overthrow of Fulgencio Batista
hasOutcome establishment of a guerrilla foco in the Sierra Maestra
hasParticipant 82 revolutionaries
Camilo Cienfuegos
Che Guevara
Fidel Castro
Juan Almeida Bosque
Ramiro Valdés
Raúl Castro
location Granma Province
Las Coloradas
Niquero
eastern Cuba
namedAfter yacht Granma
numberOfPeopleOnBoard 82
opposedTo Batista dictatorship
surface form: Fulgencio Batista government
origin Tuxpan
Veracruz
originCountry Mexico
partOf Cuban Revolution
plannedBy 26th of July Movement
precededBy Fidel Castro exile in Mexico
Moncada Barracks
surface form: Moncada Barracks attack
result beginning of guerrilla warfare in the Sierra Maestra
survival of a small group of rebels
significance pivotal starting point of the Cuban Revolution
symbol of the Cuban revolutionary struggle
transportedBy Granma yacht
surface form: yacht Granma
uses maritime infiltration

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Rebel Army notableEvent Granma landing
Oriente region historicalEventSite Granma landing
Oriente Province, Cuba historicalEvent Granma landing
this entity surface form: Granma landing (1956)
Rebel Army (Cuba) originEvent Granma landing