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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...
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Ingalls, John James, 1833-1900
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Publisher: New York, Thompson
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at will be celebrated for all time in the history of naval warfarefor its daring and its success. Deweys Coolness.The man who can stand on the bridge of a warship, as Dewey did, andcoolly face such a storm of shot and bursting shells as that which rained uponthe American fleet in Manila Bay, possesses a self-iestraint that cannot butcommand the admiration of the world. This characteristic is one that hasdistinguished Admiral Dewey all through his life. In the midst of the mostimminent peril, requiring quick and decisive action, his coolness seems neverto desert him. A good story is told, which not only illustrates this distin-guishing feature of his nature, but also the high regard in which he is heldby the men under his command. It was during the spring of 1887, whenAdmiral Dewey, then a captain, had command of the flagship Pensacola., asailing vessel, in the Mediterranean. While en rotite from Athens to thecoast of Spain, the vessel encountered a series of short but violent squalls,
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DEWEVS BREAKFAST. 245 which not only greatly retarded her progress, but proved intensely wearingon the crew. One night, when the inconstancy of the weather was particularly annoy-ing, the officer of the watch happened to be a young lieutenant who was veryunpopular with the men, being what is termed in nautical vernacular abucko. Several times during the watch all hands had been called toshorten sail, and they were naturally very much exhausted from racing backand forth from the decks to the upper rigging. Finally, the order was againgiven to make sail, and the tired sailors set about to put it into execution.But, after the work had been accomplished, and all hands had come downfrom aloft, it occurred to the officer that the men had not exhibited sufficientalacrity to suit him, and, advancing to the break of the poop, speakingtrumpet in hand, he thundered a torrent of epithets at the crew, following itup with an order to lay aloft and go through the tactics of shortening sail byway of

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