America's war for humanity related in story and picture, embracing a complete history of Cuba's struggle for liberty, and the glorious heroism of America's soldiers and sailors . the UnitedStates of America hostilities have broken moment has arrived to prove to the worldthat we possess a spirit to conquer those who,iding to be loyal friends, take advan-i our misfortune to abuse our hospital-ity, using means that civilized nations countunworthy and disreputable. S5 186 AMERICAS WAR FOR HUMANITY, Promptly obeying that order, the UnitedStates squadron, consisting of the flagshipOlympic!,
America's war for humanity related in story and picture, embracing a complete history of Cuba's struggle for liberty, and the glorious heroism of America's soldiers and sailors . the UnitedStates of America hostilities have broken moment has arrived to prove to the worldthat we possess a spirit to conquer those who,iding to be loyal friends, take advan-i our misfortune to abuse our hospital-ity, using means that civilized nations countunworthy and disreputable. S5 186 AMERICAS WAR FOR HUMANITY, Promptly obeying that order, the UnitedStates squadron, consisting of the flagshipOlympic!, Baltimore, Raleigh, Boston, Con-cord and Petrel, with the revenue cutterMcCulloch as an auxiliary dispatch-boat, en-tered the harbor of Manila at daybreak May 1,and immediately engaged the entire Spanishfleet of eleven ships, which were under the The North American people, constitutedof all social excrescences, have exhausted ourpatience and provoked war by their perfidiousmachinations, their acts of treachery, theiroutrages against the laws of nations and inter-national conventions. The struggle will be short and gods of victories will give us one as brill-. REAR ADMIRAL GEORGE, DEWEY. HERO OF THE WORLDS GREATEST NAVAL BATTL protection of the fire of the land forts. Aftera stubborn fight, in which the enemy sufferedgreat loss, these vessels were destroyed or com-pletely disabled, and the water battery atCavite silenced. Of our brave officers and mennot one was lost and only eight injured, andthose slightly. All of our ships escaped anyserious damage. By May 4th Commodore Dewey had takenpossession of the naval station at Cavite, de- iant and complete as the righteousness andjustice of our cause demand. Spain, which counts upon the sympathiesof all nations, will emerge triumphant fromthis new test, humiliating and blasting theadventurers from those United States that,without cohesion, without history, offer onlyinfamous traditions and ungrateful spectaclesin her cha
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