Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. (1899)
Boyd, James Penny, 1836-1910 · Philadelphia, Pa., A. J. Holman & Co · leaf 419
hley, with his flying squadron, watched in Hampton Roads for an attackby the enemy on the Atlantic coast. Havana was blockaded by Sampsonssquadron April 22, and his searchlights seen from the Cuban capital wereas the handwriting on the sky, foredooming Spanish rule. His tacticswere to take no risk… … MAIS DECK OF CRUISER CHICAGO. the Winslow, while chasing a decoy gunboat too far under the fire of the landbatteries, Ensign Bagley and four sailors were the first men of the navy to laydown their lives. It was known that Cervera had sailed from Cadiz toward the West Indies.Sampson made a tour of…
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