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to conduct guerilla warfare. However, due to choppy weather, the Granma had landed two days late on 2nd
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station was also burned to the ground. They cut power lines, sabotaged railroad tracks and bridges, but by mid afternoon, the army began retaking the city and crushed the uprising.
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