Manuel Boza Agramonte

Major General of the Cuban Liberation Army. He rose up in Las Clavellinas on November 4, 1868 against Spanish colonialism. He held the military leadership of the province in 1869. He died in an ambush in Puerto Príncipe in 1871.

He was born in the province of Camagüey in 1820.

He participated in the uprising of Las Clavellinas on November 4, 1868, and had his baptism by fire in the combat of Bonilla on the 28th of that same month, as platoon leader. Due to the popularity of the Boza family, the insurgents created a quatrain that said:
"Tell him that it was the Boza who at Bonilla mountain
crossed the ribs of the big-bellied Valmaseda"

When the Liberation Army was restructured after the Assembly of Guáimaro in April 1869, he became chief of the 1st brigade of the First division of Camagüey with the rank of colonel. Later he held the position of second in command of the Division, in which he was confirmed with the rank of major general by decree of President Carlos Manuel de Céspedes on April 4, 1870.

When Major General Ignacio Agramonte's resignation from command of the Division was accepted on January 17, 1870, Boza remained in charge of it until April 21, 1870, when Major General Federico Fernández Cavada was appointed to that position.

When he also resigned shortly thereafter, Boza resumed command to turn it over to Agramonte on January 17, 1871 and remain again as second in command.

He died in an ambush in Puerto Príncipe, Camagüey, on May 18, 1871.