Campaigning in the PhilippinesHicks-Judd Company, 1899 - 314 pages |
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... yards distance : Olympia ( flying the broad pennant of George Dewey ) , Baltimore , Raleigh , Petrel , Concord and the Boston , the despatch boat , McCulloch No.27 and the transports Nanshan and Zafiro . The ships were cleared for ...
... yards distance : Olympia ( flying the broad pennant of George Dewey ) , Baltimore , Raleigh , Petrel , Concord and the Boston , the despatch boat , McCulloch No.27 and the transports Nanshan and Zafiro . The ships were cleared for ...
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... yards of the ISLA DE CUBA . Photo by Bishop . Olympia ; only one other signal , Close Up , ' was made during the first part of the combat . It was a grand moment , and as we advanced the Spaniards opened The zip - zip of their shells ...
... yards of the ISLA DE CUBA . Photo by Bishop . Olympia ; only one other signal , Close Up , ' was made during the first part of the combat . It was a grand moment , and as we advanced the Spaniards opened The zip - zip of their shells ...
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... yards at the close of the fifth round . At that distance , in a smooth sea , we ought to have made a large percentage of hits ; yet , so far as we could judge , we had not sensibly crippled the foe . Consequently Commodore Dewey hauled ...
... yards at the close of the fifth round . At that distance , in a smooth sea , we ought to have made a large percentage of hits ; yet , so far as we could judge , we had not sensibly crippled the foe . Consequently Commodore Dewey hauled ...
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... yards , and not unlike one in general appearance , except that the walls are not so high and strong , but they are sufficient , where every point is in range of a soldier's rifle , to keep in the poor reconcentrado women and children ...
... yards , and not unlike one in general appearance , except that the walls are not so high and strong , but they are sufficient , where every point is in range of a soldier's rifle , to keep in the poor reconcentrado women and children ...
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... yards , air - line , vary- ing north by ten degrees east , and between these two were a number of short trenches and rifle - pits , and a stone house and barricades , all so situated as to en- filade the approaches from different ...
... yards , air - line , vary- ing north by ten degrees east , and between these two were a number of short trenches and rifle - pits , and a stone house and barricades , all so situated as to en- filade the approaches from different ...
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1st Lieut 20th Kansas 2d Oregon 3d Art 4th Cav Acting Assistant Surgeon Admiral Dewey advance Aguinaldo Aide-de-Camp American ammunition army arrived at Manila artillery attack Baliuag battalion Battery battle block-house boat Bocaue bridge Brigadier-General Caloocan Calumpit Capt captured carrying the following Cavite Cebu Chaplain command companies detachment enemy enemy's entrenchments expedition fight Filipinos flank fleet following officers force front gunboat guns headquarters Hospital Corps infantry insurgents insurrectos killed La Loma church Laguna de Bay Lawton left San Francisco Luzon MacArthur Major-General Malate Malolos Manila Bay March Marilao ment Merritt miles military morning natives Nebraskas night Norzagaray occupied Otis outposts Pasig River position province Quingua railroad rebels Regiment road San Miguel Santa scouts sent ships Signal Corps soldiers South Dakotas Spain Spaniards Spanish tion town trenches troops U. S. Inf United States Inf Utah Volunteer Inf Wheaton wounded yards
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Page 31 - authority and government in the island of Cuba, and withdraw its land and naval forces from Cuba and Cuban waters, and directing the President of the t'nited States to use the land and naval forces of the United States to carry
Page 31 - States to use the land and naval forces of the United States to carry this resolution into effect,' and, " Whereas, by an Act of Congress entitled ' An Act to provide for temporarily increasing the military establishment of the United States in time of
Page 104 - party or faction among them, but to protect them in their homes, in their employments, and in their personal and religious rights. All persons who, by active aid or honest submission, co-operate with the United States in its effort to give effect to this beneficent purpose, will receive the reward of its support and protection.
Page 85 - That the United States will occupy and hold the city, bay and harbor of Manila, pending the conclusion of a treaty of peace, which shall determine the control, disposition and government of the Philippines.
Page 29 - 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, and have been a disgrace to Christian civilization, culminating,
Page 118 - of such duties and other charges as shall be in force at the time of their importation. Finally, it should be the earnest and paramount aim of the military administration to win the confidence, respect and affection of the inhabitants of the Philippines by assuring to them in every possible way that full
Page 117 - property of the people of the islands and for the confirmation of all their private rights and relations. It will be the duty of the commander of the forces of occupation to announce and proclaim in the most public manner that we come not as invaders or conquerors, but as friends to protect
Page 116 - of the ratifications of the present treaty, admit Spanish ships and merchandise to the ports of the Philippine Islands on the same terms as ships and merchandise of the United States. ARTICLE V. The United States will, upon the signature of the present
Page 116 - degree meridian of longitude east of Greenwich, and thence along the one hundred and eighteenth (118th) degree meridian of longitude east of Greenwich to the point of beginning. The United States will pay to Spain the sum of twenty million dollars
Page 313 - Support us all day long of this troublous life, until the shadows lengthen and the evening comes, and the busy world is hushed and the fever of life is over and its battles