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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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t would be almost certain toarrive in the evening of Saturday. The Spanish fleet, which the Governor-General had been overpersuaded by Admiral Montijo to order to sea to meet DEWEYS BREAKFAST. 211 and destroy the coward Yankee pigs, was recalled Saturday afternoon andlined tip seven miles down the bay from Manila, at Cavite, where the arsenal,dry-docks and naval workshops were defended by a long line of earthworks.Those works had been greatly strengthened of late, notably by the additionof several big modern guns. They were regarded as very formidable by theold-fashioned Spanish military engineers. The fort on Corregidor Island,the battery on Caballo Island, and the works on the mainland points to thenorth and south of those islands were all in readiness, and the chain ofmines which guarded both channels were prepared to blow up each Americanship as it passed. Saturday night fell with the Spaniards on land and waterquite cheerful over the coming engagement. When the guns at Corregidor
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AMERICAN OFFICERS VIEWING WRECK OF SPANISH FORTIFICATIONS. suddenly boomed out, all the other guns about the entrance to the bay tookup the cry. The anxious people of Manila, twenty miles up the bay, pouredinto the streets. They thought the battle had begun in reality. It was a night of terror in Manila. The women and children fled to thechurches, while the men rushed to and fro in the streets. Dismay seizedupon the Spanish soldiers. They had not believed that the Americans couldever get past the entrance batteries and mines. Long before dawn the panicbecame a frenzy, because of the reports that came from the interior of theisland that the natives were massing for a descent upon the city to pillageand to massacre. When day broke the tens of thousands watching on allsides of the vast and beautiful harbor saw the enemy in line of battle aboutten miles out, directly in front of Manila. 212 AMERICAS WAR FOR HUMANITY, With the bright American flag floating gayly over each ship, with therig

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