United States in War with Spain and the History of Cuba: A Thrilling Account of the Land and Naval Operations of American Soldiers and Sailors in Our War with Spain, and the Heroic Struggles of Cuban Patriots Against Spanish Tyranny. Including a Description and History of Cuba, Spain, Philippine Islands, Our Army and Navy, Fighting Strength, Coast Defences, and Our Relations with Other Nations, Etc., EtcInternational Publishing Company, 1898 - 566 páginas |
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... shore batteries , without rudder or engine to serve , and the Hudson , a mere tugboat with a few little guns on deck , stood by for forty minutes to pass a hawser and tow the disabled vessel out of range . Both were riddled , the ...
... shore batteries , without rudder or engine to serve , and the Hudson , a mere tugboat with a few little guns on deck , stood by for forty minutes to pass a hawser and tow the disabled vessel out of range . Both were riddled , the ...
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... shore and laid her to . Crew and captain could be seen rushing about the deck of the ship like a nest of ants , hiding their valuables and striving to avert some impending fate they could only guess at in their ignorance . As she came ...
... shore and laid her to . Crew and captain could be seen rushing about the deck of the ship like a nest of ants , hiding their valuables and striving to avert some impending fate they could only guess at in their ignorance . As she came ...
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... shore , when a Spanish masked battery on the east side of the harbor , command- ing the entrance , fired three shots in quick succession . They all went wide of the mark , striking the water nearly a quarter of a mile away from the boat ...
... shore , when a Spanish masked battery on the east side of the harbor , command- ing the entrance , fired three shots in quick succession . They all went wide of the mark , striking the water nearly a quarter of a mile away from the boat ...
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... shores , has asserted itself triumphantly through all the centuries and is now ineradicable . According to the accounts given by Spanish writers who were con- temporary with the discovery , and the century immediately following , the ...
... shores , has asserted itself triumphantly through all the centuries and is now ineradicable . According to the accounts given by Spanish writers who were con- temporary with the discovery , and the century immediately following , the ...
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... shores for many miles he concluded that it was a continent . He retained the latter belief until his death , for it was not until 1508 that the island was circumnavigated , when it was discovered that it was of about the same area as ...
... shores for many miles he concluded that it was a continent . He retained the latter belief until his death , for it was not until 1508 that the island was circumnavigated , when it was discovered that it was of about the same area as ...
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Términos y frases comunes
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Pasajes populares
Página 300 - For the recognition of the independence of the people of Cuba, demanding that the Government of Spain relinquish its authority and government in the island of Cuba, and to withdraw its land and naval forces from Cuba and Cuban waters, and directing the President of the United States to use the land and naval forces of the United States to carry these resolutions into effect...
Página 93 - After we shall have offered Spain a price for Cuba far beyond its present value, and this shall have been refused, it will then be time to consider the question, does Cuba, in the possession of Spain, seriously endanger our internal peace and the existence of our cherished Union ? Should this question be answered in the affirmative, then, by every law, human and divine, we shall be justified in, wresting it from Spain if we possess the power...
Página 300 - ... existed for more than three years in the island of Cuba, so near our own borders, have shocked the moral sense of the people of the United States, have been a disgrace to Christian civilization, culminating, as they have, in the destruction of a United States battle ship, with 266 of its officers and crew, while on a friendly visit in the harbor of Havana...
Página 32 - Second. That it is the duty of the United States to demand, and the Government of the United States does hereby demand, that the Government of Spain at once relinquish its authority and government in the Island of Cuba and withdraw its land and naval forces from Cuba and Cuban waters.
Página 307 - The right to intervene may be justified by the very serious injury to the commerce, trade and business of our people, and by the wanton destruction of property and devastation of the island. " Fourth. Aid, which is of the utmost importance. The present condition of affairs in Cuba is a constant menace to our peace and entails upon this government an enormous expense.
Página 303 - We have found ourselves constrained, in the observance of that strict neutrality which our laws enjoin and which the law of nations commands, to police our own waters and watch our own seaports in prevention of any unlawful act in aid of the Cubans. Our trade has suffered...
Página 306 - There remain the alternative forms of intervention to end the war, either as an impartial neutral by imposing a rational compromise between the contestants, or as the active ally of the one party or the other. As to the first, it is not to be forgotten that during the last few months the relation of the United States has virtually been one of friendly intervention in many ways, each not of itself conclusive, but all tending to the exertion of a potential influence toward an ultimate pacific result,...
Página 32 - Third. That the President of the United States be, and he hereby is, directed and empowered to use the entire land and naval forces of the United States and to call into the actual service of the United States the militia of the several States to such extent as may be necessary to carry these resolutions into effect.
Página 307 - ... and the irritating questions and entanglements thus arising — all these and others that I need not mention, with the resulting strained relations, are a constant menace to our peace and compel us to keep on a semi-war footing with a nation with which we are at peace.
Página 93 - ... permit Cuba to be Africanized and become a second St. Domingo, with all its attendant horrors to the white race, and suffer the flames to extend to our own neighboring shores, seriously to endanger or actually to consume the fair fabric of our Union.