José Julian Martí

Martí, José Julian (1853–1895), Cuban poet and hero of the independence movement. While in exile in the United States (1881–95) he founded the Cuban Revolutionary Party. His best known poems appear in Ismaelillo (1882), Versos sencilles (1891), and Versos libres (1913). A leader of the 1895 Cuban rebellion against Spanish rule, Marti was killed at the battle of Dos Rios.