In 1848, William Worth was approached by a group of Cuban Freemasons known as the Havana Club, composed of sugar plantation owners and aristocrats, who wanted the overthrow of the island's Spanish government. They sent a college professor named Ambrosio Jose Gonzales to ask Worth to lead an invasion of Cuba at the head of American Mexican War veterans.
Knowing that Worth was also a Freemason, Gonzales greeted the war hero with the Masonic secret handshake, and offered him $3 million. Worth accepted the offer, but before anything could come of it, he was transferred by the War Department to Texas.
He was in command of the Department of Texas when he died of cholera in 1849 in San Antonio.
The general's body is buried at Worth Square in New York City.
--Brock-Perry
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