The United States Navy in the Spanish-American War of 1898: Narratives ... by U.S. naval officers1899 |
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Страница 682 - I found myself very feverish, and went in to bed ; but, having read somewhere that cold water drank plentifully was good for a fever, I follow'd the prescription, sweat plentifully most of the night, my fever left me, and in the morning, crossing the ferry, I proceeded on my journey on foot, having fifty miles to Burlington, where I was told I should find boats that would carry me the rest of the way to Philadelphia. It...
Страница 681 - ... principle that the intensity of light varies inversely as the square of the distance.
Страница 682 - I drank only water; the other workmen, near fifty in number, were great guzzlers of beer. On occasion, I carried up and down stairs a large form of types in each hand, when others carried but one in both hands.
Страница 682 - I ever saw of the kind; I see him still at work when I go home from club, and he is at work again before his neighbors are out of bed.
Страница 214 - Life made no answer; and Death spoke again: "I would not woo from God's sweet nothingness A soul to being, if I could not bless And crown it with all joy. If unto men My face seems awesome, tell me, Life, why, then, Do they pursue me, mad for my caress, Believing in my silence lies redress For your loud falsehoods? (So...
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Страница 117 - ... that, it is more vulnerable, both above water and below, than shore guns are if these are properly distributed. It is a hybrid, neither able to bear the weight that fortifications do, nor having the mobility of ships; and it is, moreover, a poor gun platform in a sea way. There is no saying of Napoleon's known to the writer more pregnant of the whole art and practice of war than this: "Exclusiveness of purpose is the secret of great successes and of great operations.
Страница 113 - Cervera's fleet was destroyed," truly said the London "Times" (August 16), " the war was practically at an end, unless Spain had elected to fight on to save the point of honor ; " for she could have saved nothing else by continued war. To such successful operation, however, there is needed not only ships individually powerful, but numbers of such ships ; and that the numbers of Sampson's fleet were maintained — not drawn off to other, though important, operations — even under such sore temptation...
Страница 118 - Spanish defenses we were able to hug pretty closely most parts of the Cuban coast. Had the Spanish guns at Santiago kept our fleet at a greater distance, we should have lamented still more bitterly the policy which gave us sluggish monitors for mobile battleships.
Страница 698 - We must have had four and three quarters knots' speed of our own, and the tide must have been fully a knot and a half. What ground-tackle could hold against a mass of over seven thousand tons moving with a velocity of six knots? We stood on a little longer to reduce the speed further. A pull on Murphy's cord to stand by, — three steady pulls, — the bow anchor fell.