Our Navy in the War with SpainC. Scribner's sons, 1898 - 406 страници |
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... squad- ron had gone to the Cape Verde Islands , where the Vizcaya and the Oquendo joined them , and thereafter the rumors regarding it were so nu- merous and contradictory as to be absolutely bewildering . Meantime , it must not be ...
... squad- ron had gone to the Cape Verde Islands , where the Vizcaya and the Oquendo joined them , and thereafter the rumors regarding it were so nu- merous and contradictory as to be absolutely bewildering . Meantime , it must not be ...
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... squad- ron after the first day or so , but when the tor- pedo - boat Foote was fired on by the shore - bat- teries as she was scouting about the harbor of Matanzas , Admiral Sampson determined to re- ply , and the men heard the news ...
... squad- ron after the first day or so , but when the tor- pedo - boat Foote was fired on by the shore - bat- teries as she was scouting about the harbor of Matanzas , Admiral Sampson determined to re- ply , and the men heard the news ...
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... squad- ron was in the bay and no enemy had been seen . Now , it was well known to Commodore Dewey that a telegraph station stood on Point Bolinao and that his presence on the coast had been known by the Spanish at Manila ever since his ...
... squad- ron was in the bay and no enemy had been seen . Now , it was well known to Commodore Dewey that a telegraph station stood on Point Bolinao and that his presence on the coast had been known by the Spanish at Manila ever since his ...
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... squad- ron . A single well - directed ten - inch shell would have destroyed the best ship under Dewey's command . But we know there were " several modern guns of a larger calibre than any on our ships , " at Cavite alone , and that our ...
... squad- ron . A single well - directed ten - inch shell would have destroyed the best ship under Dewey's command . But we know there were " several modern guns of a larger calibre than any on our ships , " at Cavite alone , and that our ...
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... squad- ron was going in chase of a squadron of twenty knots ! And Cervera was actually coming with three destroyers , while Sampson had the one torpedo - boat only . Well , the seventeen - knot Iowa took the Amphitrite in tow , and the ...
... squad- ron was going in chase of a squadron of twenty knots ! And Cervera was actually coming with three destroyers , while Sampson had the one torpedo - boat only . Well , the seventeen - knot Iowa took the Amphitrite in tow , and the ...
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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