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Title: America's war for humanity, related in story and picture, embracing a complete history of Cuba's struggle for liberty...
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Ingalls, John James, 1833-1900
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Publisher: New York, Thompson
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at it is the men behind the guns that win battles. He said: It was a brilliant stroke. Everything, as I have often said before, depends upon the man in naval warfare. Dewey is an able officer. He brought his coals and workshops with him. He thought out and planned the whole affair with consummate skill and foresight. Deweys strategy was thoroughly good. It was business from start to finish.Of course, when he got inside the harbor, he could easily pound the Spanish ships, and he did it splendidly. It was a case of short, sharp, and decisive work, and, as I always contend that everything depends on the individual man, it was Deweys victory. Lord Brassy, who was recently Governor of Australia, and who was also Secretary of Admiralty during Mr. Gladstones last administration, says;The sudden descent of the United States on the Philippines, and the probability that she will keep them, has come as a surprise to the world, and well it might. To think of being able to secure such an invaluable possession- 15
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DEWEYS BREAKFAST. TTl , with its 10,000,000 inhabitants, all as a result of a few hours fighting. Such a result as this is, indeed, calculated to appeal to the imagination; and yet it is, of course, nothing else than the simple result of superiority at sea.Without this, all attempts at colonial empire are doomed to failure. This war is a most striking verification of what Captain Mahan has taught us in his classical work on sea power. It proves the truth of his contentions, and places him in the front rank of political thinkers of our time. Another distinguished Englishman, Vice-Admiral Philip Howard Colomb, and also inventor of improved methods for signaling at sea, greatly admires the pluck and courage of Dewey and his men at Manila. The Admiral says: I doubt if there ever was such an extraordinary illustration of the influence of sea power. A superior fleet has attacked and beaten a Spanish fleet supported by batteries, and, it now appears, it passed those batteries and has taken up an un

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