the three former articles will be tried by summary court-martial and shot, if by such disobedience there have been caused assassination, fires, robbery, or violence."

Victories

Admiral Dewey, being without land forces to follow up his victory over the Spanish Insurgent navy, by force contented himself with guarding the bay of Manila, while he waited the arrival of General Merritt and his troops from the United States. Aguinaldo, expecting the Americans to support his claims, within two weeks after his arrival had assembled a force of three thousand armed men and had fought many skirmishes. He had captured two good batteries and was in possession of the entire province of Cavite. Sixteen hundred Spaniards had been taken prisoners and several hundred killed or wounded. Two thousand rifles purchased abroad had been supplied to the rebels, and they had taken two thousand magazine rifles and six field-guns from the Spaniards.

With Admiral Dewey controlling the bay and Aguinaldo the territory surrounding Manila, the residents of the Philippine capital, cut off from supplies, awaited the inevitable capitulation that must follow the arrival of the strong armies being hurried from San Francisco.

CHAPTER XXXV

BOMBARDMENTS OF SANTIAGO

COMMODORE SCHLEY, while off Santiago awaiting the arrival of Admiral Sampson's fleet, sent a few shells into the Spanish batteries at the mouth of the harbor, but it was not until Monday, June 6, after Admiral Sampson's arrival, that the harbor fortifications were bombarded in earnest. On that day, after an engagement lasting nearly three hours, Admiral Sampson cabled to the Navy Department in Washington that he had silenced the forts at Santiago without injury of any kind.

While it was true that Admiral Sampson did considerable damage to the Spanish batteries, it was later discovered that the men at the enemy's guns had retired when the American fire became too hot, and that the batteries were capable of doing considerable damage still. The Spanish loss was seven killed and about forty wounded. The Americans had only one man slightly wounded. The batteries of the Spaniards engaged were those of

Morro Castle, Estrella, Caro, and Punta Gorda. The guns in some of these batteries were manned by men from the fleet of Admiral Cervera, which was bottled up in Santiago harbor.

The American ships about six o'clock in the morning slowly moved to within three thouFormation sand yards of the shore. The first of the Fleet line, composed of the "Brooklyn," "Texas," "Massachusetts," and "Marblehead," turned westward. Commodore Schley's flagship, the cruiser "Brooklyn," was in the lead. In the second line was Admiral Sampson's flagship, the "New York," with the battle-ships "Oregon and "Iowa," and the cruisers "New Orleans" and "Yankee." by the flagship, the second line moved eastward. Far out on the left were the "Vixen and the "Suwanee," whose crews watched the riflemen on shore. The "Dolphin" and the "Porter" formed the right guard. Apparently the movement of the ships had not been noticed until they were close up to the batteries, and a heavy shot from the "Iowa" struck one of the batteries, with serious effect.

Led

Admiral Sampson's column directed its attention to some new earthworks near Morro