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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, and the glorious heroism of America's soldiers and sailors
Year: 1898 (1890s)
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Subjects: Spanish-American War, 1898
Publisher: New York, St. Louis, N.D. Thompson Publishing Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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g herfour-inch battery with her big guns forward. But on the two cruisers thenoise was like the explosion of a pack of giant crackers a thousand-foldmagnified. The only pause was to allow the billowing white smoke to driftaway, and the gunners again to see the shore targets. Brown prismaticpowder was used, which caused much smoke, but it was quickly dispersedby the fresh breeze that was blowing at the time. The Cincinnati was occupied with the west shore worksouly, but the NewYork pounded at both sides of the bay impartially. The return fire from shorewas very slow. The eastern fort mounted four breech-loading eight-inchrifles, which were loaded and fired intermittently, but very few shells fell lessthan a quarter to a mile short. The turret guns from the Puritan and NewYork got a good range on this structure, and several big shells seemed to landon the target. But it was one gun behind the western earthworks whichmade its presence unmistakably known, and its crew was not driven away.
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PORTION OF THE CREW OF THE NEW YORK 2SG AMERICAS WAR FOR HUMANITY. There was nothing to shoot at from seaward except a sand bank, in whichmany shells buried themselves without exploding. Other shells whistleddirectly over the New York with vicious enthusiasm, one of them so near thesmoke-stack that it splashed into the sea only one hundred yards to the star-board. As the flagship was stationary, the range, once found, might have beeneffectively followed up, but the guns were silent after these good shots weremade, including a very close shave for the Cincinnati from a shell, whichdropped just astern. The Cincinnati did some remarkably pretty practice,both first and last, from her port broadside, and, the range once found,plumped shells on shore in and around the earthworks in a wholesale fashion.On the other ships many square hits were made, and the damage done couldplainly be seen through the glasses. Bricks and masonry flew in the airfrom the square stone forts until the dropping fi

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