Moncada was the second largest military garrison in Cuba ... and that's when he decides to attack the Moncada Barracks." Castro persuaded university student leaders to provide him with machine ...

His life as a rebel began in 1953 with a reckless attack on the Moncada military barracks in the eastern city of Santiago. Most of his comrades were killed and Fidel and his brother Raul went to ...

Sixty-two years ago — it seems like yesterday — a band of rebels led by Fidel Castro attack the [Moncada] military barracks in Santiago de Cuba, trying to begin to overthrow the government of ...

In 1953, he helped his older brother, Fidel, plan and execute a failed attack on the Moncada military barracks in Santiago de Cuba in an attempt to oust Gen Fulgencio Batista. He was sentenced to ...

Thousands were in the audience in a sun-splashed square outside the Moncada barracks, still visibly scarred with bullet holes from the doomed assault. The July 26 holiday is sometimes used to make ...

Castro was arrested after his failed assault on the Moncada Barracks, and Batista pardoned ... He himself came to power through a military coup against an authoritarian president.

Fidel Castro, a 26-year-old lawyer angry after Batista took over the Cuban presidency in a 1952 coup, led about 150 rebels on an attack on the Moncada army barracks in eastern city of Santiago.

His attacks on military barracks in the east of the country failed ... with comrades during preparations for the attack on the Moncada Garrison, Credit: Getty Images ...

Moncada was the second largest military garrison in Cuba ... and that's when he decides to attack the Moncada Barracks." Castro persuaded university student leaders to provide him with machine ...