Identifier: americaswarforhu00newy (find matches)
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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e. This low point gradually rises to a hillabout two hundred feet above the sea, one mile to the west of the extremity.The mouth of the harbor is about a half-mile in width, and the low easternshore makes a wide sweep around the coast to the inside. On the westernpoint is Punta Gorda. This new line of earthworks is located on a hill,behind which is an old stone fort. On the east side is a long fort of stoneand masonry flanked by earthworks, called Morillo Castle. This is all of thefortifications which were engaged with the American ships on the afternoonof April 26th. During the week previous to the attack the torpedo boatFoote was fired upon while scouting off this port. Captain Chadwickremarked, after the smoke had cleared away, We wished to discouragetheir work, and as an afterthought he added They fired on one of ourboats the other day. About eleven oclock on the morning of April 26th, MheNew York, whichhad lain almost motionless for several hours off the Havana blockading station
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THE FIRST BATTLE—MATANZAS LEARNS A LESSON. 283 wheeled slowly round and headed to the eastward. Word was passed alongthe decks that there might be something on beside a change of air. Withoutdefinite information descending from the powers that be, vague but con-vincing premonitions began to thrill the ships company on the surface. Thiswas simply a little cruise of inspection along the coast, and to meet theblockading division off Matanzas; but one would say softly to another: Ithink we are in for a little excitement; we may mix things up. At 12:30oclock, from the deck of the flagship, Matanzas Inlet showed, with the longpoint shielding it like a protecting arm. The Cincinnati, Captain Chesterin command, was about two miles off the harbor, and the Puritan, CaptainHarrington, was wallowing close by. When the New York came almost off the point, two miles distant, a longyellow streak showed the location of fresh earthworks, and around and onthis ridge a number of men were moving like bu

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