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Title: An illustrated history of our war with Spain : its causes, incidents, and results
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Russell, Henry Benajah, 1859- Thurston, John Mellen, 1847-1916 Proctor, Redfield, 1831-1908
Subjects: Spanish-American War, 1898
Publisher: Hartford, Conn : A. D. Worthington
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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, and was tossing shells intoKubalcaya at the rate of about three a minute with wonderfulprecision and apparently with great destructiveness. In the meantime the Puritan was taking care of PointMaya. It was a long shot to that battery and it was so wellmasked that the only target was the infrequent smoke of agun, but when the Puritan found the range her shells burstevery time within the fortifications, great clouds of dust andfragments rising high in the air with every explosion. Up tothis time the Cincinnati had received no order to join in theaction and her crew and officers could hardly contain them-selves. Finally, Captain Chester himself signaled asking per-mission to engage, and it was granted by the flagship. TheCincinnati quickly steamed up to Avithin two thousand yardsbroadside on and all her guns seemed to go at once. But thisgrim sport was of short duration. At the end of eighteen minutes, the batteries apparentlyhaving been silenced, the New York gave the signal to retire.
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SUPERB MARKSMANSHIP OF TH.E AMERICANS 531 but soon after a last defiant shot was fired from the shore.Almost instantl)^ one of the big guns of the Puritan, whichwas in line, replied. It was the best shot of the day and ex-cited the admiration of every witness. It struck the batteryjust where the smoke had showed the gun, tore its way into theearthworks and exploded with terrible destruction. Then theships stood out to sea. The display of marksmanship on the American vessels wassuperb; the firing Avas rapid and every one of the three hundredshots fired seemed to do its w^ork of destruction to the newforts, but not one of the enemys shots hit the ships; they wereabsolutely unharmed except from the usual results of the con-cussion of their own guns. A correspondent WTote: Whena 10,000-ton ship, usually as steady as a rock, shakes andtrembles like a frightened child; when firmly-fitted bolts startfrom their sockets and window-panes and woodwork are shat-tered ; when the roar peals up from

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