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Corregidor Island is at the mouth of the bay , and on either side of it are channels
named Boca Chica and Boca Grande , two and one - half and six miles wide
respectively . It was a beautiful starlight · night . A gentle breeze tempered the ...
Corregidor Island is at the mouth of the bay , and on either side of it are channels
named Boca Chica and Boca Grande , two and one - half and six miles wide
respectively . It was a beautiful starlight · night . A gentle breeze tempered the ...
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No torpedo - boat in the world could have passed that shell - swept interval of a
mile and a half . Our squadron defiled before the Spanish line , pouring in its
shower of death with terrible effect from the port battery ; and turning , it continued
the ...
No torpedo - boat in the world could have passed that shell - swept interval of a
mile and a half . Our squadron defiled before the Spanish line , pouring in its
shower of death with terrible effect from the port battery ; and turning , it continued
the ...
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For more than an hour and a half cannonading had continued , keeping in
suspense the hopes of those on the opposite shore of the bay , who with their
hearts took part in this unequal struggle , in which , as ever , the Spanish sailors
went ...
For more than an hour and a half cannonading had continued , keeping in
suspense the hopes of those on the opposite shore of the bay , who with their
hearts took part in this unequal struggle , in which , as ever , the Spanish sailors
went ...
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... of American war - ships into action in his flagship Olympia ; that after a fierce
fight , lasting two hours and a half , the attacking fleet retired from the battle into
the center of Manila Bay , and did not renew the attack until nearly four hours
later .
... of American war - ships into action in his flagship Olympia ; that after a fierce
fight , lasting two hours and a half , the attacking fleet retired from the battle into
the center of Manila Bay , and did not renew the attack until nearly four hours
later .
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Torn from their homes , with foul earth , foul air , foul water and foul food , or none
, what wonder that one - half have died , and that one - quarter of the living are so
diseased that they cannot be saved ? A form of dropsy is a common disorder ...
Torn from their homes , with foul earth , foul air , foul water and foul food , or none
, what wonder that one - half have died , and that one - quarter of the living are so
diseased that they cannot be saved ? A form of dropsy is a common disorder ...
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| Title | Campaigning in the Philippines |
| Authors | Karl Irving Faust, Peter MacQueen |
| Publisher | Hicks-Judd Company, 1899 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 9 Sep 2008 |
| ISBN | 5870708737, 9785870708737 |
| Length | 314 pages |
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