Campaigning in the PhilippinesHicks-Judd Company, 1899 - 314 pages |
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Page vii
... Continued , 237 ; Result of the Operations , 240 . EXPEDITIONS TO THE SOUTHERN ISLANDS Operations on Panay , 241 ; Operations in Cebu , 245 ; Occupation of Negros , 247 ; The Sulu Archipelago , 249 . XIV . THE GUNBOAT FLOTILLA The ...
... Continued , 237 ; Result of the Operations , 240 . EXPEDITIONS TO THE SOUTHERN ISLANDS Operations on Panay , 241 ; Operations in Cebu , 245 ; Occupation of Negros , 247 ; The Sulu Archipelago , 249 . XIV . THE GUNBOAT FLOTILLA The ...
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... continued up the bay , the stillness occasionally broken by the cry of the lookouts announcing a light upon the distant shore . " At the first break of dawn we could make out the shipping of the city of Manila , apparently consisting ...
... continued up the bay , the stillness occasionally broken by the cry of the lookouts announcing a light upon the distant shore . " At the first break of dawn we could make out the shipping of the city of Manila , apparently consisting ...
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... continued the same steady shower with the starboard guns . Seven separate times our ships performed this evolution as if on parade , and the Spaniards met our fire with the greatest bravery . They had fully a hundred guns playing upon ...
... continued the same steady shower with the starboard guns . Seven separate times our ships performed this evolution as if on parade , and the Spaniards met our fire with the greatest bravery . They had fully a hundred guns playing upon ...
Page 7
... continued to shell the steamer , and in order to hasten operations , boats were hoisted out and provided with combustibles for the purpose of burn- ing ; but before she had got any distance it was seen that our shells had set her on ...
... continued to shell the steamer , and in order to hasten operations , boats were hoisted out and provided with combustibles for the purpose of burn- ing ; but before she had got any distance it was seen that our shells had set her on ...
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... continued to scan the advancing enemy ; they may have been brave , but had no occasion to prove it since the range of their guns and the deficiencies of our artillery enabled them to do us all the harm they wished with impunity . Those ...
... continued to scan the advancing enemy ; they may have been brave , but had no occasion to prove it since the range of their guns and the deficiencies of our artillery enabled them to do us all the harm they wished with impunity . Those ...
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1st Lieut 1st Lieutenant 20th Kansas 2d Lieutenant 2d Oregon 4th Cav Acting Assistant Surgeon advance Aguinaldo American April army arrived at Manila artillery attack August Baliuag Battalion Battery battle block-house Bocaue bridge Brigade Brigadier-General Caloocan Calumpit camp Camp Merritt Capt captured Cavite Cebu Chas Clerk command Company G Dewey duty enemy enemy's enlisted entrenchments expedition February fight Filipinos fleet force front Guiguinto guns headquarters Hospital Corps infantry insurgents insurrectos islands July June killed La Loma church Laguna de Bay Lawton left San Francisco Luzon MacArthur Malate Malolos Manila Bay March Marilao Merritt miles military Minn Minneapolis mustered natives Nebraskas night Norzagaray occupied Otis Pasig Pasig River Paul Philippines railroad regiment river road San Miguel scouts Sergt soldiers South Dakotas Spain Spaniards Spanish Student town trenches troops U. S. Inf United States Inf Volunteer Inf Wheaton wounded yards