Identifier: illustratedhist00russ (find matches)
Title: An illustrated history of our war with Spain : its causes, incidents, and results
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Russell, Henry Benajah, 1859- Thurston, John Mellen, 1847-1916 Proctor, Redfield, 1831-1908
Subjects: Spanish-American War, 1898
Publisher: Hartford, Conn : A. D. Worthington
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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archipelago. The insurgentshad, meantime, been preparing to seize Grande Island in SubigBay, which the Spaniards had been fortifying. The Germanwarship Irene entered, and her commander refused to allowthe insurgents to attack the place, alleging that as Germanyhad not formally recognized them as belligerents, he couldnot, from motives of humanity, allow them to attack theSpanish, as he feared that a massacre might occur. On hear-ing the situation, Dewey at once sent one of his own vessels,the Raleigh, to take the island, and the I renews commandercould not very well object to this, as, whatever Germany mightthink about the insurgents, she had fully recognized that astate of war existed between Spain and the United States.In fact, as soon as the Raleigh appeared, the Irene withdrew 768 DEWEY ASSERTS HIS CONTROL. from the bay, the Spanish surrendered without firing a gun,and Dewey handed the prisoners over to the insurgents, Avithtlie assurance that they would be humanely treated. Dewey
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rr o H 0 A r^ t- < ^ <^ e U ^ y. t: < % QQ made it understood that he was master in the island, that inter-ference, active or passive, would not be brooked, and that theinsurgents could trust to his support so long as they deserved AN EXASPERATING GERMAN ADMIRAL. 769 it. It wa^^ anotlier ))roof that Dewov was cool-headed andquick-witted. What might have grown into a European com-plication was settled hj him very promptly and without leav-ing the resemblance of a ground for reasonable protest. This aifair was simply one of the culminating incidents inthe exasperating conduct of the German commander, AdmiralVon Diederichs. He had been one of the most disquietingelements in the bay from the time the foreign ships had ap-peared there. Sitting on the quarter-deck of his flagship oneJuly afternoon, Admiral Dewey pointed towards the distantwrecks of Montijos fleet, and said to a visitor: The little fight out there was one of the least diflicultthings T have had to do here, and he ad

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