José Martí organizes the Cuban revolutionary Party and look for the old leaders of the revolution, unifies the different streams, build a small army, and disembarks in Cuba. Martí dies in one of the combat actions (1895), but the revolutionary army continues to fight. in 1898, after the explosion of the battleship Maine in the port of Havana, declares war on Spain. Cuba proclaimed its independence in 1899, although it suffered the American occupation.