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Author: Books Group
Number of Pages: 32 pages
Published Date: 01 May 2012
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: English
Type: Pdf
ISBN: 9781235297014
File size: 49 Mb
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 Excerpt: ...and more convinced that I ought to join it. The truth is, if Cervera ever comes out of his hole and begins throwing eleven-inch shells at me, I am very much afraid that I shall be very much afraid." I met this man again on that bright July afternoon a week or two later, as we lay off Rio Tarquino, watching the quiet surrender of the last ship of the Spanish squadron, with the decks of the Texas sole-deep in saltpeter from her guns, her forward upper works shot away, the marks of a Spanish shell in her pilot-house, and the fragments of another in her fire-room, but still able to flutter the signal" No casualties." He looked twenty years younger. His eyes were still bright with the joy of battle. "Were you afraid?" I asked. "I had n't time to think about it," he replied. His somewhat whimsical apprehensions had been born of the tension of waiting. It is easy now to speak lightly of the blockade, but it made more than one man in our squadron hollow-eyed and fitful-pulsed. A less equable race could never have maintained it as did the officers'and men under the command of Sampson and Schley. Although this is intended to be a brief account of the battle of Santiago as seen from the Texas, I mention the blockade because it was the blockade that made the battle possible. The battle was a direct consequence of the blockade, and upon the method and effectiveness of the blockade was very largely dependent the issue of the battle. It was necessary to have always before the entrance to Santiago harbor a force of ships amply sufficient to cope with the Spanish squadron, should it come out to do battle, and it was necessary to have this force so disposed that none of the Spaniards could escape, if that were their object, no matter which ...
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Author: Books Group
Number of Pages: 32 pages
Published Date: 01 May 2012
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: English
Type: Pdf
ISBN: 9781235297014
File size: 49 Mb
Download Link: The Story of the Captains; Personal Narratives of the Naval Engagement Near Santiago de Cuba, July 3, 1898, by Officers of the American Fleet
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 Excerpt: ...and more convinced that I ought to join it. The truth is, if Cervera ever comes out of his hole and begins throwing eleven-inch shells at me, I am very much afraid that I shall be very much afraid." I met this man again on that bright July afternoon a week or two later, as we lay off Rio Tarquino, watching the quiet surrender of the last ship of the Spanish squadron, with the decks of the Texas sole-deep in saltpeter from her guns, her forward upper works shot away, the marks of a Spanish shell in her pilot-house, and the fragments of another in her fire-room, but still able to flutter the signal" No casualties." He looked twenty years younger. His eyes were still bright with the joy of battle. "Were you afraid?" I asked. "I had n't time to think about it," he replied. His somewhat whimsical apprehensions had been born of the tension of waiting. It is easy now to speak lightly of the blockade, but it made more than one man in our squadron hollow-eyed and fitful-pulsed. A less equable race could never have maintained it as did the officers'and men under the command of Sampson and Schley. Although this is intended to be a brief account of the battle of Santiago as seen from the Texas, I mention the blockade because it was the blockade that made the battle possible. The battle was a direct consequence of the blockade, and upon the method and effectiveness of the blockade was very largely dependent the issue of the battle. It was necessary to have always before the entrance to Santiago harbor a force of ships amply sufficient to cope with the Spanish squadron, should it come out to do battle, and it was necessary to have this force so disposed that none of the Spaniards could escape, if that were their object, no matter which ...
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