Campaigning in the PhilippinesHicks-Judd Company, 1899 - 314 pages |
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... miles of island real estate in the Malay archipelago , and called them the Philippines . Spain never conquered them ; Luzon , the largest , was never colonized ; Mindanao , the second of the flora and fauna of these no better known than ...
... miles of island real estate in the Malay archipelago , and called them the Philippines . Spain never conquered them ; Luzon , the largest , was never colonized ; Mindanao , the second of the flora and fauna of these no better known than ...
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... miles wide respectively . It was a beautiful starlight SAN JUAN DE AUSTRIA . Photo by Bishop . night . A gentle breeze tem- pered the intense tropical heat . A young moon , occas- ionally veiled by clouds , was in the zenith , and the ...
... miles wide respectively . It was a beautiful starlight SAN JUAN DE AUSTRIA . Photo by Bishop . night . A gentle breeze tem- pered the intense tropical heat . A young moon , occas- ionally veiled by clouds , was in the zenith , and the ...
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... miles from a home port , and that under the most favorable conditions a supply of ammunition could not be obtained in less than a month , the outlook was far from being satisfactory . The Commodore knew that the Spaniards had just ...
... miles from a home port , and that under the most favorable conditions a supply of ammunition could not be obtained in less than a month , the outlook was far from being satisfactory . The Commodore knew that the Spaniards had just ...
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... mile or so in advance . There are frequent block - houses inclosed by a trocha , and with a guard along the railroad track ... miles of railroad rides from Pinar del Rio province in the west , across the full width of Havana and Matanzas ...
... mile or so in advance . There are frequent block - houses inclosed by a trocha , and with a guard along the railroad track ... miles of railroad rides from Pinar del Rio province in the west , across the full width of Havana and Matanzas ...
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... miles long , south of Cavite fort and arsenal ; they were splendidly entrenched . Here the Spaniards , 2 with a large force , sought to dislodge them , but were defeated with the loss of nearly the half of a whole regiment of ...
... miles long , south of Cavite fort and arsenal ; they were splendidly entrenched . Here the Spaniards , 2 with a large force , sought to dislodge them , but were defeated with the loss of nearly the half of a whole regiment of ...
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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