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title: '"General Antonio Maceo, the Hero of Peralejo" (Sahm & Co., New York, 1898)'
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description: General Maceo on horseback waves a sword and breaks through a wooden barrier at the head of a charge of the Cuban Liberation Army toward gunfire.
section: Collection
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[!["General Antonio Maceo, the Hero of Peralejo", 1898 US print: General Maceo on horseback waves a sword and breaks through](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/general-antonio-maceo-hero-of-peralejo-sahm-1898.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/general-antonio-maceo-hero-of-peralejo-sahm-1898.jpg)

# "General Antonio Maceo, the Hero of Peralejo" (Sahm & Co., New York, 1898)

General Maceo on horseback waves a sword and breaks through a wooden barrier at the head of a charge of the Cuban Liberation Army toward gunfire, with a Cuban flag at the left; the title is given in English and Spanish. The tell: the leader is the whole picture, mounted and ahead of his men, with the enemy only a line of smoke.

A chromolithograph copyrighted in 1898 by Sahm & Co. of New York, sold commercially in the United States during the Spanish-American War, and a U.S. print about a Cuban commander, not an item issued by the Cuban independence movement. General Maceo on horseback waves a sword and breaks through a wooden barrier at the head of a Cuban Liberation Army charge toward gunfire, with a Cuban flag at left, and the title is given in English and Spanish. Appeal to emotion rests on the leader being the whole picture, with the enemy only a line of smoke.

## Propaganda techniques used in this print

[Appeal to emotion](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/appeal-to-emotion/)

## Full record

Region, Country, Medium, Issuer type, Regime, Leader, Audience, Purpose, Themes, Event, Source, Rights

[← Homenagem da Revista Illustrada aos gloriosos vencedores de Canudos (Tribute of the Revista Illustrada to the Glorious Victors of Canudos)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/homenagem-vencedores-de-canudos-revista-illustrada-1897/) [L'Aurore, no. 87, front page (Paris, 13 January 1898): "J'Accuse...! Lettre au Président de la République" (J'Accuse...! Letter to the President of the Republic) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/jaccuse-laurore-front-page-1898/)

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