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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 ...
Page 5
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 ...
Page 14
She was picked up by the search - lights of our squadron fully a mile away , and
was kept in the focus of their rays until she came alongside . Our officers almost
universally believed that the object of her unnecessary and untimely visit was to ...
She was picked up by the search - lights of our squadron fully a mile away , and
was kept in the focus of their rays until she came alongside . Our officers almost
universally believed that the object of her unnecessary and untimely visit was to ...
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and with , as I observed and was informed was always the case , a pilot engine a
mile or so in advance . ... I saw no house or hut in the four hundred miles of
railroad rides from Pinar del Rio province in the west , across the full width of
Havana ...
and with , as I observed and was informed was always the case , a pilot engine a
mile or so in advance . ... I saw no house or hut in the four hundred miles of
railroad rides from Pinar del Rio province in the west , across the full width of
Havana ...
Page 37
The insurgents also held Paranaque and Las Pinas , and built trenches one and
one - half miles long , south of Cavite fort and arsenal ; they were splendidly
entrenched . Here the Spaniards , with a large force , sought to dislodge them ,
but ...
The insurgents also held Paranaque and Las Pinas , and built trenches one and
one - half miles long , south of Cavite fort and arsenal ; they were splendidly
entrenched . Here the Spaniards , with a large force , sought to dislodge them ,
but ...
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Bibliographic information
| 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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