sentences:  In 1889 he enrolled in the Toledo Infantry Academy, where he met with the future high commissioner of Spanish Morocco, Dámaso Berenguer.He committed suicide on the battlefield following the disastrous defeat at Anual of 22 July 1921 suffered by the Spanish army under his command.Silvestre first saw action in 1890 at the age of 19 in a skirmish as a cadet against the "Mambises" guerrillas seeking independence in Cuba.