. An illustrated history of our war with Spain : its causes, incidents, and results. illing and wounding over 600men, and making hundreds of prisoners without the loss orserious injury of a single vessel, and with casualties limitedto one man killed and a couple wounded, and having dis-patched the whole business within five hours after the Spanishflagship had poked her nose out of the entrance, the Americanstook a well-earned rest, and on the next morning awoke theCuban echoes with such a celebration of the Fourth of Julyas history had never before recorded. Commodore Schleys instant decision
. An illustrated history of our war with Spain : its causes, incidents, and results. illing and wounding over 600men, and making hundreds of prisoners without the loss orserious injury of a single vessel, and with casualties limitedto one man killed and a couple wounded, and having dis-patched the whole business within five hours after the Spanishflagship had poked her nose out of the entrance, the Americanstook a well-earned rest, and on the next morning awoke theCuban echoes with such a celebration of the Fourth of Julyas history had never before recorded. Commodore Schleys instant decision and the dash andvigor with Avhich he met the emergency, and the splendid sea-manship with which he headed off and caught the Colon in arace which will be famous as long as naval history is written,leave him entitled to the lions share of the credit. It was hewho discovered the elusive Spaniard in Santiago; it was hewho bottled him there; and there was a poetic justice and pos-sibly a just providence in that fortune which enabled him to > 7: .2 > r, Xc -^ > 12 O K < 2;. COMMODORE SCHLEYS GREAT VICTORY 741 destroy it wlieii there was no one at hand to deprive him ofthe honors of command. Success in war is always more orless a matter of opportunity. It was no disparagement to theCommander-in-Chief, Admiral Sampson, whose absence wasin pursuance of duty and without fault, to yield to Com-modore Schley the full measure of reward. A few days after the battle the Spanish prisoners, num-bering 746 and including 54 officers, were sent to Portsmouth,N. H., on the cruiser St. Louis. They were dressed in cloth-ing of every description, having come on board practicallywithout clothing of any kind. Admiral Cervera showed signsof the terrible mental strain under which he had been forweeks. The Spanish seamen frankly declared that they hadno further desire to fight with Yankees. Every provisionwas made for their comfort, and Admiral Cervera becamequite a popular hero with the peopl
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