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Notes on the Spanish-American War... - Google Book Search
By José Müller y Tejeiro, Max F. E. Plüddemann, Hermann Jacobsen, John Morris Ellicott, Severo Gómez Núñez, Pascual Cervera y Topete, Víctor María Concas y Palau
By José Müller y Tejeiro , Max F. E. Plüddemann , Hermann Jacobsen , John Morris Ellicott , Severo Gómez Núñez , Pascual Cervera y Topete, Víctor María Concas y Palau
Santiago - Page 52 Nothing can be compared with the disastrous condition of Santiago the day of our arrival, and the stupendous ignorance of the Spanish residing there ... more pages: 53
Cienfuegos - Page 25 It was not known whether Cienfuegos was fortified; all we knew was that it had some torpedoes, and the natural assumption was that this harbor would ... more pages: 31
Palma Soriano - Page 71 Later came three companies of the San Fernando battalion, one remaining at El Cristo and two at Palma Soriano. Finally, General Vara del Rey, ... more pages: 123
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Guantanamo - Page 52 those within its zone of cultivation, and a country road leading to Manzanillo, another to Holguin, and a third to the neighboring port of Guantanamo. ... more pages: 12
San Juan - Page 87 General Linares had no available reserves; he therefore formed the echelon close to the positions of San Juan where he could observe the movements of ... more pages: 14
El Cristo - Page 71 Later came three companies of the San Fernando battalion, one remaining at El Cristo and two at Palma Soriano. Finally, General Vara del Rey, ... more pages: 70
Holguin - Page 52 those within its zone of cultivation, and a country road leading to Manzanillo, another to Holguin, and a third to the neighboring port of Guantanamo. ... more pages: 164
Las Cruces - Page 150 The forces of the Socapa and Punta Gorda were taken by sea, in the steamer Reina de Los Angeles, to Las Cruces pier, and from there they marched to ... more pages: 126
El Cobre - Page 70 The embarkation of the seamen who had gone ashore took place rapidly, except those of the Vizcaya, who were farther away on the road to El Cobre and ... more pages: 71
Cartagena - Page 151 provided they have rejoined the squadron, leaving these vessels enough coal for the homeward voyage and dispatching them back to Cartagena. ... more pages: 37
Annapolis - Page 140 1 have received many visits and many kind services from prominent people, some of very high rank, and at Annapolis the whole population was very kind ... more pages: 139
Madrid - Page 142 1 This letter was received by me at Madrid shortly after my return from the United States. more pages: 32
Matanzas - Page 14 The coast between Habana and Matanzas is open and can be safely navigated at a distance of 3 miles. Within this base the ships can cruise without ... more pages: 101
Portsmouth, NH - Page 107 of Portsmouth, NH, where a few miser been erected and were guarded with great i the prisoners could have escaped by swimm ... more pages: 139
Portsmouth - Page 140 As politely as I knew how, I commented on this to Admiral Carpenter, and in honor to truth I must say that when I left Portsmouth two days later the ... more pages: 141
Bilbao - Page 46 The fleet is reduced to the three Bilbao cruisers, the Colon, the Destructor, and tho torpedo destroyers Furor and Terror. ... more pages: 13
Santo Domingo - Page 76 we proceeded to that island, adopting at first a wrong course in the direction of Santo Domingo, until at a distance of 30 miles from Martinique. ... more pages: 46
Batabano - Page 56 On May 11 the Eagle dragged unsuccessfully for a cable laid between Cien- fuegos and Batabano in shallow and clear water. ... more pages: 80
San Antonio - Page 24 Vincent, because the sea coming from the island of San Antonio and striking ships headed toward the breeze on the broadside renders it impossible in ... more pages: 92
Puerto Plata - Page 75 Louis, are at Guadeloupe and Martinique, respectively; that the Americans have taken possession of Puerto Plata and, it is believed, also of Samana; ... more pages: 81
San Francisco - Page 34 remembering that it will be to their interest to maintain the ships now in the Pacific for the protection of San Francisco and the arsenal of San ... more pages: 54
Barcelona - Page 91 batteries for the advanced line of the harbor and city of Barcelona, which, as is well known, does not possess natural advantages for defense. ... more pages: 46
Brooklyn - Page 72 which evidently originated with one of the American captains, te on the whole, correct, except that the positions of the Texas and Brooklyn are shown ... more pages: 56
Brooklyn, Indiana - Page 113 Opposite the mouth of the harbor, the New York, Brooklyn, Indiana, Massachusetts, Minneapolis, Vesuvius, one yacht, and seventeen merchant vessels. ... more pages: 100
Gibara - Page 46 and still further from Gibara, without being able to elude an encounter with much superior forces, if we wanted to go to Habana through the old Bahama ...
Mayaguez - Page 24 A few families from Mayaguez had come hither to await further developments. On my return to Mayaguez I had an opportunity of inspecting a company of ... more pages: 21
Port Said - Page 151 Upon arrival at Port Said, and upon notifying this ministry by cable of the condition in which the expedition reaches that city, and the facilities or ...
New York - Page 85 The station of the Flying Squadron in Hampton Roads, though not BO central as New York relatively to the more important commercial interests upon ... more pages: 63
Babana - Page 22 Now, then, the United States squadron was repeatedly compelled to abandon the blockade of Babana and several other ports of the island in order to ...
Caibarien - Page 53 On the loth an American vessel appeared in front of Caibarien, but retreated when fired upon by our launches. On the 20th a gunboat fired from _a ... more pages: 81
Sevilla - Page 77 There he received orders to proceed with his column and with the whole force in the mineral region to the heights of Sevilla before daybreak, ... more pages: 85
Gibraltar - Page 86 Very near us, at Gibraltar, where very significant battle maneuvers are frequently held, of which we hardly take any notice until foreign reviews ... more pages: 100
Nuevitas - Page 38 for instance, and two more at Nuevitas, which ports are well suited for placing lines of torpedoes, owing to their narrow entrances, there is no doubt ... more pages: 30
Genoa - Page 42 Finally the Cristobal Colon, recently built at Genoa, under the command of Capt. Emilio Diaz Moren, having on board the second in command of the ... more pages: 37
Norfolk, New York - Page 141 When everything was in readiness at Annapolis, I thought it best to take a trip to Norfolk, New York, and Portsmouth, before the steamer was ready, ...
Montevideo - Page 111 the Santo Domingo and Montevideo had i the blockade, going out at 2 o'clock am If we si ron without fighting, the moral effect would be te and abroad. ...
Santander - Page 112 We arrived at Santander on the 21st of September, and one of the pleasantest experiences of our lives awaited us there. ...
Paris - Page 73 Island of Puerto Rico is watched by auxiliaries Paris snd New York. Admiral at Havana says four hostile ships in sight yesterday, one at Mantanzas and ... more pages: 125
Boston - Page 85 Did the enemy appear off either Boston, the Delaware, or the Chesapeake, he could not effect material injury before a division of ships of the Oregon ...
Santa Maria - Page 74 A few years ago I had the honor to represent in the caravel Santa Maria, which is an exact copy of that of Columbus, the glories of the fifteenth ...
Halifax - Page 148 You might find it expedient (but this is not imposed upon yon as a duty) to go up north as far as to permit you to detach a cruiser to Halifax, ...
Norfolk, Va - Page 139 to the Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md., with the exception of the seriously wounded and sick, who were sent to the Naval Hospital at Norfolk, Va. ...
Granada - Page 74 The sound of my bugles was the last echo of those which history tells us were sounded at the capture of Granada. ...
Plymouth - Page 164 and I instinctively call to mind Admiral Byng, hung at Plymouth lor a similar reason; Persano, after the battle of Lissa; Mathews, exonerated after ...
Albacete - Page 7 and obtained the election as senator for the province of Albacete, but did not eveu have a chance of. discussing the proceedings of his election. ...
Nashville - Page 53 On May 11 the boats of the Marblehead and Nashville, under cover of the guns of said vessels, and the Winslow attacked the mouth of the bay of ...
Marietta - Page 73 According to late information battle ship Oregon, accompanied by Marietta and another similar ship, are on the way from Rio Janeiro to West Indies. ...
St. Louis - Page 75 that two of the enemy's auxiliary cruisers, the Harvard and St. Louis, are at Guadeloupe and Martinique, respectively; that the Americans have taken ...
Talavera - Page 15 To these forces must be added the battalion of Talavera, which General Linares ordered from Baracoa as soon as the present war was declared and in ...
Hamburg - Page 19 in which these many years German merchants, mostly from Hamburg and Bremen, have exerted their best energy in steady, unremitting toil, and which now, ...
Puerto Cabello - Page 79 and knowing further that the French Cable Company has telegraphed its agents at La Guayra, Puerto Cabello, and Curacao, opening unlimited credits to ...
ALLEN, WASHINGTON - Page 160 ALLEN, WASHINGTON, September 1,1898.1 Acting Secretary. 'After my return to Spain I received the result of an inquiry made by order of the ministry of ...
Berlin - Page 14 can not be foreseen, and the Americans should not be put in the same class with the unfortunate French people, who in 1870 shouted: "On to Berlin! ...
Chapala - Page 119 "At daybreak of the 27th the camp at Almirante was strucK and the column continued its march across the plain of Guanabano, through Chapala and across ...
La Guaira - Page 80 hero as military attach £ to the legation, and he and his minister are working hard, the former making frequent trips to the port of La Guaira. ...
Cincinnati - Page 52 To that end he entered the bay with Ms flagship, accompanied by the I'uritan and Cincinnati. The works were bombarded without any effect on the new ...
San Diego - Page 34 of San Francisco and the arsenal of San Diego, as also their costly trans-Pacific liners plying between the former city and Australia and China, ...
Puerto Padre - Page 30 Should it be decided to furnish the insurgents with arms aud ammunition, the Department suggests that Nuevitas aud Puerto Padre would be the most ...
Gloucester - Page 54 Puerto Rico were convoyed from Santiago to the southern coast of that island by the Massachuse's (flagship), Columbia, Yale, Dixie, and Gloucester. ...
Mexico, New York - Page 50 These vessels carry on traffic with Puerto Rico, Cuba, Mexico, New York, Liverpool, the Philippines, Rio de la Plata, and Africa. ...
London - Page 136 If we do not previously receive instructions I intend to contract for passage, drawing for necessary funds upon your excellency or London committee. ...
Burgos - Page 35 (Silvela, in Burgos.) I do not speak on the subject of privateering, because it seems to me that no man acquainted with history can attach any value ...
Liverpool - Page 50 These vessels carry on traffic with Puerto Rico, Cuba, Mexico, New York, Liverpool, the Philippines, Rio de la Plata, and Africa. ...
Corunna - Page 29 Also the Compatiia Trasatlantica has ordered its ships not to tonch at Corunna hereafter, presumably for the same reason. ...
Montreal - Page 87 Secret information from Montreal that Schley's fleet goes to south of Cuba (afterwards Sampson's), and that four monitors and several cruisers are ...
Buenos Aires - Page 153 To this vessel you can ti Buenos Aires in order that the latter military operations with which she ma;. The Queen and the Government are intrusted to ...
Villeneuve - Page 111 if the battle was lost, while it might very well have been won, it was because our fleet was commanded by Villeneuve, and the hostile fleet by Nelson. ...
Minneapolis - Page 66 Columbia and Minneapolis believed to have sailed for Europe. I am told there are numerous spies among coal trimmers, Immediate departure imperative. ...
Toronto - Page 74 Our minister from Toronto communicates to-day, 15th, the following telegram: "It is reported that hostile squadron under command of Sampson was at ...
Detroit - Page 33 At Trinidad we met the American gunboat Helena, and at Cienfuegos the cruiser Detroit, lying close to the harbor. ...
New Orleans - Page 26 Their ships, as far as the draft is concerned, are calculated for banks extending a long distance into the sea, as at New Orleans, for instance.
Lome - Page 25 Dupuy tie Lome affair is added the news of the explosion of the Maine, which has just been reported to me, and I am constantly thinking of the Vixcaya ...
San Jose - Page 10 Santiago de Cuba has, besides many minor piers for boats and small craft, the Royal Pier and the piers of Luz and San Jose", all built of wood; ...
Bahia Honda - Page 31 You will immediately institute a blockade of the north coast of Cuba, from Car- denus to Bahia Honda; also, if in your opinion your force warrants, ...
Caracas - Page 78 HONORED SIR: The Spanish minister at Caracas, in dispatch No. 79, dated May 18, advises this ministry as follows: "On Friday, the 13th instant, ...
Charleston - Page 81 Flying Squadron on the way from Charleston to Key West, where it is expected to arrive to-day. The Commandant Navy-Yard, Havana (Manterola), ...
Brooklyn, Iowa - Page 99 Hostile ships have fired about 60 shots, apparently for pu Firing was done by Brooklyn, Iowa, Massachutett«, Texat, . cruiser. ...
Columbia, New York - Page 84 The hostile forces are composed of seven cruisers, namely: Brooklyn, Massachuse's, Minneapolis, Columbia, New York, Indiana, Iowa, and Oregon. ...
Vigo - Page 137 But for sanitary reasons, if only one ship, to go to Sautander; if two, one to Santauder and one to Vigo. 1 The sentence in italics is not in the ...
La Reina - Page 36 La Reina (permanent, but considerably strengthened and newly armed): Three 16-centimeter Hontoria naval guns (from the cruiser Alfonso XII); ...
Topeka - Page 54 The same day' the Annapolis, Wasp, Lcyden, and Topeka took possession of the Bayof Nipe, destroying the gunboat Jorge Juan. ...
Reina Mercedes - Page 139 By order of the commander of marine, I went to the cruiser Reina Mercedes in order to ascertain her exact position. ... more pages: 58
Cavite - Page 12 The two mines which were blown up in front of the Olympia at the beginning of the battle of Cavite were not intended as a regular obstruction of the ... more pages: 6
Manila - Page 6 When the American fleet advanced for the attack it was fired upon by a battery at Manila. The Olympia answered with two shots; both. more pages: 62
Zamboanga - Page 152 Basilan, or Zamboanga, reeuforce the detachments with the landing troops, or, if possible, enter into communication with the authorities at Manila for ...
Singapore - Page 152 or, passing through the Strait of Sunda, touching at Singapore or Batavia if deemed necessary, and proceeding thence toLabuan, Borneo; or, finally, ...
Panay - Page 154 Giralda, 1, Pelayo; 2, Carlos V; 3, PaMota; 4, Rdpldo; 5, Buenos Airet; 6, Panay; 7, Colon; 8, Covadunya; 9, San Francisco; 10, San Agustin; 11, ...
