Our Navy in the War with SpainC. Scribner's sons, 1898 - 406 страници |
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... Began -- Two- story Turrets and Broadside Batteries -- Smokeless Powder in Future , with Guns that for the Moment will Lead the World -- Ships to Re- place the Maine -- The New Monitors -- A Tale of a Torpedo - boat on the Blockade - A ...
... Began -- Two- story Turrets and Broadside Batteries -- Smokeless Powder in Future , with Guns that for the Moment will Lead the World -- Ships to Re- place the Maine -- The New Monitors -- A Tale of a Torpedo - boat on the Blockade - A ...
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... began his rule by proclaiming that all residents who did not actively aid him in extirpat- ing the revolution were to be considered and treated as armed enemies , and that meant that they might be shot at the order of any officer of the ...
... began his rule by proclaiming that all residents who did not actively aid him in extirpat- ing the revolution were to be considered and treated as armed enemies , and that meant that they might be shot at the order of any officer of the ...
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... began slaughtering their prisoners . Four were shot to death on that day . On the 7th thirty- seven more were executed , including Captain Joseph Fry and eight other Americans , and sixteen British subjects , members of the crew . On ...
... began slaughtering their prisoners . Four were shot to death on that day . On the 7th thirty- seven more were executed , including Captain Joseph Fry and eight other Americans , and sixteen British subjects , members of the crew . On ...
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... began , and how we got it . It will help us to understand how it was that swift destruction fell upon our enemies , while we escaped , if the expression may be allowed , with losses so in- significant as to excite universal wonder ...
... began , and how we got it . It will help us to understand how it was that swift destruction fell upon our enemies , while we escaped , if the expression may be allowed , with losses so in- significant as to excite universal wonder ...
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... began to build new ships under the false pretence that he was repairing old ones . Physically the sea- power of our navy , if we may use Mahan's adaptation of Ruskin's term , reached its lowest ebb in 1873. We did in succeeding years ...
... began to build new ships under the false pretence that he was repairing old ones . Physically the sea- power of our navy , if we may use Mahan's adaptation of Ruskin's term , reached its lowest ebb in 1873. We did in succeeding years ...
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Admiral Cervera afloat American Amphitrite armed armor ARMORED CRUISER ashore auxiliaries barbette battle beach began blockade boats broadside Brooklyn calibre Captain Cavite Cervera Cienfuegos coal coast Colon command Commodore crew Cuba Cuban deck destroyers Dewey displacement draft eight-inch guns enemy engineers Ensign exploded fact fight fire First-class Battle-ship five-inch flag flag-ship force forts four gun-boat gunners Havana Hemment inch Indiana Iowa island Key West killed knots land Lieutenant Main Battery Manila Manila Bay Marblehead Maria Teresa Merrimac miles morning Morro naval officers navy Nicholas Channel night o'clock Olympia Oquendo Oregon port projectiles PROTECTED CRUISER range rapid-fire guns rifles San Juan Santiago harbor Schley sent shell shore shot side signal six-inch guns six-pounders smoke Spain Spaniards Spanish ships Spanish squadron speed steam Texas thirteen-inch tons torpedo torpedo-boat turned turrets twelve-inch vessels Virginius Vizcaya war-ships Winslow Wompatuck wounded Yankee Yankee squadron yards York