On July 26, 1953, he led about 160 men in a desperate and unsuccessful raid on a Santiago army barracks. He had hoped that the attack would ignite a general uprising against Batista, but most of the attackers were killed, and Castro and his brother Raúl were arrested and imprisoned. More @Wikipedia
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