A history of the United States . et only at the close of the engagement, inwhich Commodore Schley (§ 685) was the highest officer taking active part. §670] THE WAR WITH SPAIN. 523 670. Concluding Scenes of the War. — General Nelson with a force of about seventeen thousand men, landedon the island of PortoRico (July 28), as soonas it became knownthat his troops wouldnot be needed at Santi-ago. The Porto Ricansoffered very slight re-sistance, and before themiddle of August theisland was in the pos-session of the Ameri-cans. Manila, the capi-tal city of the Philip-pine Islands, was alsoa
A history of the United States . et only at the close of the engagement, inwhich Commodore Schley (§ 685) was the highest officer taking active part. §670] THE WAR WITH SPAIN. 523 670. Concluding Scenes of the War. — General Nelson with a force of about seventeen thousand men, landedon the island of PortoRico (July 28), as soonas it became knownthat his troops wouldnot be needed at Santi-ago. The Porto Ricansoffered very slight re-sistance, and before themiddle of August theisland was in the pos-session of the Ameri-cans. Manila, the capi-tal city of the Philip-pine Islands, was alsoassaulted by the landand naval forces, andafter a brief resistancesurrendered uncondi-tionally, on the 13th ofAugust, In every en-gagement of the war,the American soldiersand sailors behaved with great gallantry. But the management of affairs by theWar Department was, to say the least, unfortunate in manyrespects. There was great confusion in the matter of furnish-ing the troops with supplies, and the quality of the food pro-. General Nelson A. Miles. 1 Born in Massachusetts, 1839. Entered the army as a volunteer, in 1861;became a major general of volunteers, and commanded an army corps at theage of twenty-five; greatly distinguished himself in numerous battles; enteredthe regular army at the close of the war; conducted many campaigns againstIndians on the frontier; commanded the United States troops at Chicago dur-ing the strikes of 1894; appointed general in chief of United States Army,1895; commanded the army during the war with Spain; appointed lieutenantgeneral, 1900; retired, 1903. 524 Mckinley and roosevelt, 1897-1909. [§67i vided was in some instances so bad that influential officers hadto remonstrate against a condition of affairs that demoralizedthe soldiers and exposed them to disease. Even in campssituated within the United States, sickness and disorder werecommon; and so loud an outcry was raised against officialmismanagement that the President appointed a comm
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