Standard guide to Cuba : a new and complete guide to the island of Cuba, with maps, illustrations, routes of travel, history, and an English-Spanish phrase book . ons Havana could notlong hold out. On the nth of July the whole of the English batteriesof forty-one guns were opened on the city. Punta Castle was silenced A Plan of the Siege of the Havana. Drawn by an officer on the spot. Herereproduced from the original in the Gentlemans Magazine, London, September, : 3. The Dragon against Cojimar. 4. Where the army first Where the cannon, etc., were landed. 6. Batterie
Standard guide to Cuba : a new and complete guide to the island of Cuba, with maps, illustrations, routes of travel, history, and an English-Spanish phrase book . ons Havana could notlong hold out. On the nth of July the whole of the English batteriesof forty-one guns were opened on the city. Punta Castle was silenced A Plan of the Siege of the Havana. Drawn by an officer on the spot. Herereproduced from the original in the Gentlemans Magazine, London, September, : 3. The Dragon against Cojimar. 4. Where the army first Where the cannon, etc., were landed. 6. Batteries against the Morro. 7. TheDragon, Cambridge and Marlborough against the Morro. 8. The bombs against thePuntal. 9. The Belleisle against Chorera fort. 10. Batteries against the Batteries against the Cavannos hill. 12. Holtzers against the shipping. 13. ThreeSpanish men of war sunk. 14. One companys ship overset. 15. The chain andbomb. 16. Spanish admiral and fleet. 17. Two ships on the stocks. 18. AdmiralPocock with the men of war and transports. 19. Commodore Keppel with Camp at the water mills. 21. Fortified houses. 21. CABANA. The Fortification of Cabana—or, to give it the full title, Castillode San Carlos de la Cabaiia—occupies an elevated site on the hill, whichrises lOO feet almost abruptly from the waters edge across the harborfrom Havana. The route is by the harbor boats from Caballeriaor Machina wharf or the Punta landing. The fare is lo cents each steep ascent from the shore and the long walk through the fortifi-cation are likely to be fatiguing for a woman. The harbor frontage is practically a continuous wall extending alongthe crest of the hill. The landward side has three pronounced bastions,and is protected by ditches 40 feet deep. The principal entrance is onthis front. A drawbridge, which may be raised by the heavy chains,leads across the ditch to the sallyport. The legend above the entrancesets forth that the work
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