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Title: America's war for humanity related in story and picture, embracing a complete history of Cuba's struggle for liberty, and the glorious heroism of America's soldiers and sailors
Year: 1898 (1890s)
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Subjects: Spanish-American War, 1898
Publisher: New York, St. Louis, N.D. Thompson Publishing Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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west by south. On getting near the range, where the firingopened, the warships delivered one more round from their starboard batteries,and drew out of the Spaniards range, Commodore Schley saying, as hestepped to the quarter-deck: Well, we let them know we have some ammunition, and I know theircapacity for defense. For half an hour after the ships had passed a mile out of the range ofthe shore batteries and the Cristobal Colon, the Spaniards kept up their fire,and then it became known by the placement of the shot that the enemy hadplotted a neat little plan that might have succeeded had there been goodgunnery. The Colon had dropped down the harbor into a position whichshe occupied to act as bait. The modern guns on shore had found the rangeof the place where the flying squadron would have to lay in order to fire uponthe Cristobal Colon, and had trained their guns to play on that place. ButCommodore Schley beat them at their own game by going by at ten knotsspeed and firing on the fly.
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386 AMERICAS WAR TO A HUMANITY. It was learned afterward that the shot which struck the Rchia Mercedeskilled eight Spaniards; and a portion of Moro Castle was demolished. Nodamage and nocausalties on the American squadron. These were the resultsof the first days firing. Gallant Exploit of Lieutenant Hobson and His Seven Brave Men.On the 1st day of June, Admiral Sampson arrived before Santiago at thehead of his fleet, and, being the ranking officer, he assumed command of thesquadron. He had previously arranged with Lieutenant Hobson to sink thecoal ship Merrimac in the narrow neck of the harbor, and thus effectuallybottle up Admiral Cerveras fleet. The story of this thrilling achieve-ment, which electrified the world and will go down in history as one of themost gallant deeds known to men, is simply and plainly told in AdmiralSampsons report to the Secretary of the Navy, under date of June 3d: United States Flagship New York, ;Off Santiago, June 3, 1898. J Permit me to call special att

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