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====Battle of Tayacoba====
{{Main|Battle of Tayacoba}}
Lieutenant Carter P. Johnson of the Buffalo Soldiers' [[10th Cavalry Regiment (United States)|10th Cavalry]], with experience in special operations roles as head of the 10th Cavalry's attached Apache scouts in the [[Apache Wars]], chose 50 soldiers from the regiment to lead a deployment mission with at least 375 Cuban soldiers under Cuban Brigadier General Emilio Nunez and other supplies to the mouth of the San Juan River east of Cienfuegos. On June 29, 1898, a reconnaissance team in landing boats from the transports ''Florida'' and ''Fanita'' attempted to land on the beach, but were repelled by Spanish fire. A second attempt was made on June 30, 1898, but a team of reconnaissance soldiers was trapped on the beach near the mouth of the Tallabacoa River. A team of four soldiers saved this group and were awarded Medals of Honor. The {{USS|Peoria|1898|6}} and the recently arrived {{USS|Helena|PG-9|6}} then shelled the beach to distract the Spanish while the Cuban deployment landed 40 miles east at Palo Alto, where they linked up with Cuban General Gomez.<ref>{{cite book|title=Elihu Root Collection of United States Documents: Ser. A.-F.&#93;|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pxNQAAAAYAAJ|year=1898|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=pxNQAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22palo+alto%22&pg=PA691 691]|access-date=November 7, 2019|archive-date=October 12, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201012054754/https://books.google.com/books?id=pxNQAAAAYAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Schubert|first=Frank N.|title=Black Valor: Buffalo Soldiers and the Medal of Honor, 1870–1898|publisher=Scholarly Resources Inc.|author-link=Frank N. Schubert|pages=[https://archive.org/details/blackvalorbuffal00schu/page/135 135–39]|date=1997|isbn=978-0842025867|url=https://archive.org/details/blackvalorbuffal00schu/page/135}}</ref>