Sierra+Maestra+Mountains


 * __Rise: Shrewd Leadership__**

> - Ideal for guerrilla warfare so the Cuban army was unable to face them in a head on fight
 * Long history of use in guerrilla warfare - Antonio Guiteras's uprisings against Gerardo Machado and Fulgencio Batista.
 * Fidel Castro hid out in them after his return from exile in Cuba - With other revolutionaries
 * Launched a revolution in the region from the relative safety of the mountains.
 * Prevented Batista from simply crushing the revolutionary fighters as he did at the Moncada Barracks