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The order: "Cornet, touch to burst!" Was very feared by the Spanish troops. That phrase is one of the most shocking of Elpidio Valdés cartoons. But... Who was its creator? What other popular phrases of the insurgents reach our days?
Eduardo Agramonte Piña was part of the group of doctors, pharmacists and dentists who served in the insurgent camp. His work was not limited to the professional order, but transcended in the military. He obtained the rank of Colonel and was in charge of various positions in the government of the Republic in Arms. He excelled as a composer and was the author of the ‘’touch to burst’’ that the Cuban troops sang. He died in combat on March 8, 1872. In his letter he expressed the will of a better country for his children: "The bases that I desire to give my children are love to justice and truth without limits."
Another Camagüeyano, Jesus Valdés Urra, known as Chicho Valdés, was a man of wide culture, a popular figure in the Mambí Army and a tenacious abolitionist. Jesus delivered a single speech during the debates of the Assembly of Guaimaro, in which he said a phrase that today is very common: "Gentlemen: fight and do not talk so much". He died in the mountains on December 6, 1870. Those were our Cuban insurgents: original and sharp.
