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 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 increased ; soon a reply was ...
... yards of the 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 increased ; soon a reply was ...
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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 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