A History of the Spanish-American War of 1898D. Appleton, 1900 - 415 pages |
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... coast at a point near the present site of Nuevitas . This was on the 28th of October , old style , or the 7th of November , new style , in the year 1492. Here was no low - lying islet , such as he had seen in the Bahamas ; it was a land ...
... coast at a point near the present site of Nuevitas . This was on the 28th of October , old style , or the 7th of November , new style , in the year 1492. Here was no low - lying islet , such as he had seen in the Bahamas ; it was a land ...
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... coast , and on his fourth and last ( 1503 ) he paid it another brief visit . When he died , three years later , he still believed that it was part of the mainland of Asia . He had named it Juana , in honour of the Infant Juan ( John ) ...
... coast , and on his fourth and last ( 1503 ) he paid it another brief visit . When he died , three years later , he still believed that it was part of the mainland of Asia . He had named it Juana , in honour of the Infant Juan ( John ) ...
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... coast of Cuba . A few years later , finding the spot they had chosen unhealthy , the settlers crossed to the north- ern shore , little more than thirty miles distant , and established themselves at the narrow entrance of a bay in which ...
... coast of Cuba . A few years later , finding the spot they had chosen unhealthy , the settlers crossed to the north- ern shore , little more than thirty miles distant , and established themselves at the narrow entrance of a bay in which ...
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... Al- though a considerable part of their force had been raised in the West Indies , the British found the fevers of the Cuban coast a deadlier foe than the Spanish guns . Before the end of July nearly half THE EARLY HISTORY OF CUBA 7.
... Al- though a considerable part of their force had been raised in the West Indies , the British found the fevers of the Cuban coast a deadlier foe than the Spanish guns . Before the end of July nearly half THE EARLY HISTORY OF CUBA 7.
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... coast of Africa was con- fiscated and liberated by the watchful British cruisers ; and as the demand outran the supply , the price of slaves went up . In 1830 an able - bodied negro was worth two hundred and fifty dollars or less ; in ...
... coast of Africa was con- fiscated and liberated by the watchful British cruisers ; and as the demand outran the supply , the price of slaves went up . In 1830 an able - bodied negro was worth two hundred and fifty dollars or less ; in ...
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A History of the Spanish-American War of 1898 Richard Handfield Titherington No preview available - 2019 |
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Page 83 - Cuba. In the name of humanity, in the name of civilization, in behalf of endangered American interests which give us the right and the duty to speak and to act, the war in Cuba must stop.
Page 82 - ... the lives and liberty of our citizens are in constant danger and their property destroyed and themselves ruined — where our Trading vessels are liable to seizure and are seized at our very door by warships of a foreign nation ; the expeditions of filibustering that we are powerless to prevent altogether, and the irritating questions and entanglements thus arising...
Page 83 - Congress. It is a solemn responsibility. I have exhausted every effort to relieve the intolerable condition of affairs which is at our doors. Prepared to execute every obligation imposed upon me by the Constitution and the law, I await your action.
Page 17 - ... we could not view any interposition for the purpose of oppressing them, or controlling in any other manner their destiny, by any European power in any other light than as a manifestation of an unfriendly disposition toward the United States.
Page 87 - First— That the people of the island of Cuba are, and of right ought to be, free and independent. Second— That it is the duty of the United States to demand, and the government of the United States does hereby demand, that the Government of Spain at once relinquish its authority and government in the island of Cuba, and withdraw its land and naval forces from Cuba and Cuban...
Page 87 - Third, that the President of the United States be, and he hereby is, directed and empowered to use the entire land and naval forces of the United States, and to call into the actual service of the United States the militia of the several States to such extent as may be necessary to carry these resolutions into effect.
Page 89 - That the United States hereby disclaims any disposition or intention to exercise sovereignty, jurisdiction, or control over said island except for the pacification thereof, and asserts its determination when that is accomplished to leave the government and control of the island to its people.
Page 86 - Whereas the abhorrent conditions which have existed for more than three years in the Island of Cuba, so near our own borders, have shocked the moral sense of the people of the United States...
Page 387 - Upon the conclusion and signing of this protocol, hostilities between the two countries shall be suspended, and notice to that effect shall be given as soon as possible by each Government to the commanders of its military and naval forces.