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Title: America's war for humanity, related in story and picture, embracing a complete history of Cuba's struggle for liberty...
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Ingalls, John James, 1833-1900
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Publisher: New York, Thompson
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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asthe same backwardrush of pungent smoke, the same bellowing roar, and thesame upheaval of the massive deck, but there was no cavalry troop aroundthe tree when the smoke had cleared. They were riding madly in fifty direc-tions, like men at polo, and at a speed unequaled even in their retreatsbefore machete charges. But I still think the answer the grimy stoker made-was the better one. When I sent off my dispatch yesterday the flagship A^ew York was driftinglazily with the Gulf stream about ten miles eastward of Havana. Since then Vvehave steamed some forty miles westward, and have witnessed a new develop-ment in the art of war, being neither more nor less than an infantry attackon an armored cruiser at a range of more than a mile. One hardly knows whether to pity the ignorance or admire the impu-dence of the Spanish soldiers, but I am afraid the New Yorks reply will pre-vent a repetition of the experiment. How the little incident occurred andwhat came of it, I shall describe later on.
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THE JACK-TARS HAVE FUN WITH THE SPANIARDS. 313 When the flagship steamed westward yesterday afternoon, accompaniedby two torpedo boats and the newspaper fleet, she laid a course that broughtus close to the Cuban capital. I have seen Havana many times within thelast ten days, but never at such short range as yesterday. With our glasses we could see the Yellow City lying in the full glareof the western sun as plainly as could be desired. Save for a line or two ofblack smoke from tall factory chimneys, it looked like a city of the dead.No ships were to be seen coming in or going out of its usually busy port, andno trace of life was visible anywhere. The only sign of recent activity wasin the big hillside that slopes up from the sea east of Moro Castle, that grimsixteenth century structure that sentinels the harbors mouth. The whole face of the slope, from the crest to the waters edge, is seamedand furrowed with newly-made earthworks. Big dunes of yellow sand havebeen built up to protect

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