Little War

armed conflict in Cuba between 1878 and 1880

thumb|Depiction of Cuban insurgents in the tropical forest (manigua), ca. 1879-1880 The mambises were the guerrilla independence soldiers who fought for the independence from Spain of the Dominican Republic in the Dominican Restoration War (1863–1865), and of Cuba in the Ten Years' War (1868–1878), Little War (1879–1880), and Cuban War of Independence (1895–1898).