when was valeriano weyler born
Valeriano Weyler y Nicolau, marquis de Tenerife, (born Sept. 17, 1838, Palma, Majorcaâdied Oct. 20, 1930, Madrid) Spanish general who, as captain general of Cuba shortly before the outbreak of the SpanishâAmerican War (1898), used stern antirebel measures that were exploited by U.S. newspapers to inflame public opinion against Spanish rule of Cuba.