In May 1958, Cuban General Fulgencio Batista’s army attacked Fidel Castro’s forces at their home base in the mountains. The battle lasted 10 weeks. But it achieved the opposite of what Batista intended. Instead of dispensing with Fidel, the confrontation produced massive desertions in the Cuban Army. And it gave the Castro rebels a military victory on July 21 that proved to be the turning point in the civil war.
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