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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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poets and authors of that day, among his poems being The Bivouac of theDead, which still lives. The detachment finally landed and were joined three weeks later by thesecond division under Lopez, four hundred and fifty men being with thelatter. The entire force was transferred to the Creole and set sail for Cuba.Sleepy Spanish officials had not received news of the expedition, to thattheir coming was unknown. Cardenas was selected as the point for the firstattack, and into the harbor of this city the expedition sailed one dark night,with no sentinel to challenge them, and not even a pilot to show the way.Quietly up to the dock the vessel was steered, fifty men under Pickett landed,and the Lopez expedition began its brief career of Cuban liberation. Through
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34 AMERICAS WAR FOR HUMANITY. the sleeping town a detachment marched and took possession of the rail-road station. Under Lopez the main body marched through the streets tosurprise and capture the garrison in the quarters. Never did an invadingarmy enter a city so easily. Never was an attack started so auspiciously,and never would a conquest have been so easy had not a sleepy sentinel firedat the invaders in his terror, and out poured the soldiers from the garrison,half-dressed and half-armed. Then the city was in an uproar and the battlebegan. Always in the front rank, where the fighting was thickest, Lopezurged his men to victory. The motley crew fought with the ardor of pirates,and the Spanish soldiers were routed. OHara was injured and was carriedfrom the scene, and at the same time the Spanish soldiers threw down theirarms, defeated, and took up the cry, Lopez and liberty! Then Lopez, full of joy for the victory, called upon the townspeople tojoin his army; but the cry went unheed

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