For many years some historians affirmed that, although in Las Guásimas a tactical victory had been achieved, in the way to the invasion to Occident it constituted a strategic defeat for the large resources and time used.

Fortunately, researchers as Francisco Pérez Guzmán have put at our disposal the outcomes of their illuminating studies, in which it is indicated that part of the knowledge that had the high Spanish control of the arrangements of the invasion, was owed to indiscretions of ours, hence immediately they were preparing to cut the advance, and there should happen important actions like Melones, El Naranjo, Mojacasabe, and Las Guásimas like the biggest, despite all the efforts of Máximo Gómez to avoid it.

Gómez, near the enemy, decided to combat, for which he was provided with the approval of the Government of the Republic of Cuba in Arms, presided then by Salvador Cisneros Betancourt.

For the heads of the strengths of East, Camagüey and Las Villas, and especially for Maceo, which had under his control the whole infantry, the orientations were clear and precise, once the enemy was throwing himself in pursuit of the provocative group, Camagüey and Villa Clara troops had to receive them and open fire at close range.

That was a victory. Las Guásimas battle is in our history with worth splendor in the top of the pro-independence war, like one of the more beautiful pages of heroism and valor led in Camagüeyan grounds.