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Sketches from one of Churchill's earliest adventures. Shortly before his twenty-first birthday, Churchill, then a junior cavalry officer with the 4th Hussars, managed to get leave to visit Cuba, where a revolt against the Spanish authorities had broken out. Being Churchill, he not only succeeded in obtaining approval from British military intelligence, who wanted him to collect information while he was in Cuba, but was also paid by the newspaper The Daily Graphic for sending them reports from the front, at the rate of five guineas per letter. These sketches were produced to accompany Churchill's reports from the Spanish forces.

This item is on display in the exhibition "Winston Churchill and Spain - Walking with destiny", at the Sala El Águila in Madrid from March until 5th June 2011.