[2] The King of Spain granted the title to his father following a donation of the lands on which the town of Nuevitas in Puerto Príncipe was founded.

[5] He was involved in Joaquín de Agüero's independence uprising in Camagüey in 1851 and faced arrest, banishment, and exile from Cuba as a consequence of his political actions.

[8] On August 4, 1868, Salvador Cisneros Betancourt took part in a revolutionary meeting coordinated by Carlos Manuel de Céspedes at a property in Las Tunas.

[9] It united revolutionary committees and paved the way for the insurrection that sparked the Ten Years' War, Cuba's first major independence struggle against Spanish rule.

Following the Cry of Yara by Céspedes in October 1868, Cisneros Betancourt relinquished his title of Marquis, freed his slaves, and dedicated his assets to the cause.

[10] He coordinated the Las Clavellinas Uprising against the Spanish government in Camagüey Province in Central Cuba, which took place on November 4, 1868.

[5] Cisneros Betancourt and others linked to the Cuban Junta were found guilty of treason and rebellion by a court-martial in Havana on November 7, 1870, and were sentenced to death by garrote if caught by Spanish forces.

In 1878, he rejected the Pact of Zanjón, and when the insurgents' cause collapsed, he sought refuge in New York and spent eight years there before returning to Cuba.

[17] On September 19, 1895, Salvador Cisneros Betancourt was elected as the President of the Provisional Government of Cuba with Bartolomé Masó as vice-president and Tomás Estrada Palma, the delegate plenipotentiary.

[18] General-in-chief Máximo Gómez and Lieutenant general Antonio Maceo were elected and exercised sole authority over all military operations.