Reminiscences and thrilling stories of the war by returned heroes . tle off Cavite. He adds: At about a. m. Sunday, May i,the Spanish guns openedfire. With magnificent coolness and order, but with the greatest promptness,our fleet, in battle array, headed by the flagship, answered the Spanish attack,and for about two and a half hours a most terrific fire ensued. The method of our operations could not have shown greater system, ourguns greater effectiveness, or our officers and crews greater bravery, and whileSpanish resistance was stubborn and the bravery of Spanish forces such as tochall
Reminiscences and thrilling stories of the war by returned heroes . tle off Cavite. He adds: At about a. m. Sunday, May i,the Spanish guns openedfire. With magnificent coolness and order, but with the greatest promptness,our fleet, in battle array, headed by the flagship, answered the Spanish attack,and for about two and a half hours a most terrific fire ensued. The method of our operations could not have shown greater system, ourguns greater effectiveness, or our officers and crews greater bravery, and whileSpanish resistance was stubborn and the bravery of Spanish forces such as tochallenge a demonstration, yet they were out-classed, weighed in the balanceof war against the methods, training, aim and bravery shown on our decks,and after less than three hours perilous and intense combat one of Spains STORY OF MANILA. 41 war ships was sinking, two others were burning and all others with landdefences had severely suffered when our squadron, with no harm done itsships, retired for breakfast. At aboutrenewed the battle, 10 oclock A. m. Admiral Dewey. and with effectmost fatal witheach evolution. c< No better evi-dence of Spanishbravery need besought than that,after the castiga-tion of our firstengagement, herships and fortsshould again an-swer our fire. Butthe Spanish effortswere futile, shipafter ship and bat-tery after batterywent to destruc-tion before the on-slaught of Ameri-can energy andtraining, and anhour and a half ofour second engage-ment wrought theannihilation of theSpanish fleet andforts, with severalhundred Spaniardskilledand woundedand millions in value of their Governments property destroyed. While amazing, almostunbelievable as it seems, not a ship or gun of our fleet had been disabled,and, except on the Baltimore, not a man had been hurt. One of the Baltimores crew had a leg fractured by slipping, andanother hurt in the ankle in a similar manner, while four received slight MAP OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS. 42 STORY OF MANILA. flesh wounds from sp
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