Cuba's Struggle Against Spain with the Causes of American Intervention and a Full Account of the Spanish-American War: Including Final Peace NegotiationsAmerican Historical Press, 1899 - 676 pages |
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Page 385
... Wheeler planned that General Young and Colonel Wood should do ; so if the conduct of these officers was reckless , it was recklessness due to their following out the carefully - prepared orders of a veteran general . At the time of this ...
... Wheeler planned that General Young and Colonel Wood should do ; so if the conduct of these officers was reckless , it was recklessness due to their following out the carefully - prepared orders of a veteran general . At the time of this ...
Page 472
... WHEELER'S HEADQUARTERS , Before SANTIAGO , Cuba , July 13 , 1898 . To Hon . SECRETARY OF WAR , Washington , D. C . :: At a meeting between the lines , at which Generals Shafter and Wheeler and Spanish General Toral were present , the ...
... WHEELER'S HEADQUARTERS , Before SANTIAGO , Cuba , July 13 , 1898 . To Hon . SECRETARY OF WAR , Washington , D. C . :: At a meeting between the lines , at which Generals Shafter and Wheeler and Spanish General Toral were present , the ...
Page 661
... Wheeler's troops . But after the experience at El Caney there was a good deal of natural reluctance to make an attack against a foe of unknown strength , and there was a failure to try to develop the hostile strength by a ' proper ...
... Wheeler's troops . But after the experience at El Caney there was a good deal of natural reluctance to make an attack against a foe of unknown strength , and there was a failure to try to develop the hostile strength by a ' proper ...
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Adjutant-General Admiral Admiral Cervera American artillery assistant adjutant-general attack battery BREVET brigade Brigadier-General camp Caney Captain cavalry division Cervera Colonel crew Cuban El Caney enemy enemy's FIFTH ARMY CORPS fire flagship gallantry in battle Guasimas guns H. C. CORBIN harbor Havana HEADQUARTERS honor insurgents island JOSEPH WHEELER July 1st Key West killed Lawton Lieutenant William Lieutenant-Colonel Major Major-General Major-General SHAFTER Manila Maria Teresa miles morning Morro naval Navy Ninth officers Oquendo PLAYA port position President received regiment road San Juan San Juan river Santiago de Cuba Second Infantry Second Lieutenant Secretary Secretary of War sent Sergeant Seventh Infantry SHAFTER shell ships shot Siboney Sixteenth Infantry Sixth Cavalry Sixth Infantry soldiers Spain Spaniards Spanish fleet Spanish forces squadron surgeon surrender Tampa Tenth Cavalry Tenth Infantry Third Cavalry tiago de Cuba Toral Twentieth Infantry Twenty-first Infantry Twenty-fourth Infantry vessels Vizcaya Volunteer Cavalry Washington Wheeler wounded