Campaigning in the PhilippinesHicks-Judd Company, 1899 - 314 pages |
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Page 11
... fire . It is true , at least three of his ships had broken into flames , but so had one of ours - the Boston . These fires had all been put out without apparent injury to the ships . Generally speaking , nothing of great importance had ...
... fire . It is true , at least three of his ships had broken into flames , but so had one of ours - the Boston . These fires had all been put out without apparent injury to the ships . Generally speaking , nothing of great importance had ...
Page 13
... fire when we saw , soon afterward , the flames rising from the Reina Christina and the Castilla , and heard the explosion of their ammunition , and the former's magazine . We could not understand why the Castilla did not blow up . She ...
... fire when we saw , soon afterward , the flames rising from the Reina Christina and the Castilla , and heard the explosion of their ammunition , and the former's magazine . We could not understand why the Castilla did not blow up . She ...
Page 23
... fire - alarms in the bunk- ers were in working order , and there had never been a case of spontaneous com- bustion of coal on board the Maine . The two after SCENE ON THE RIO GRANDE . boilers of the ship were in use at the time of the ...
... fire - alarms in the bunk- ers were in working order , and there had never been a case of spontaneous com- bustion of coal on board the Maine . The two after SCENE ON THE RIO GRANDE . boilers of the ship were in use at the time of the ...
Page 33
... fire of shore batteries . This condition , however , for the time being , did not exist . The only Spanish fleet in Oriental waters had been destroyed . Dewey's fleet was safe in Manila harbor , with full possession of the stores ...
... fire of shore batteries . This condition , however , for the time being , did not exist . The only Spanish fleet in Oriental waters had been destroyed . Dewey's fleet was safe in Manila harbor , with full possession of the stores ...
Page 71
... fire . For instance , on the top of the inner wall there is a space about 20 feet in width which the troops occupy in action . In front of them is a stone wall 6 feet high , through which are loopholes . There is a moat sur- rounding ...
... fire . For instance , on the top of the inner wall there is a space about 20 feet in width which the troops occupy in action . In front of them is a stone wall 6 feet high , through which are loopholes . There is a moat sur- rounding ...
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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