. An illustrated history of our war with Spain : its causes, incidents, and results. BRADlEri POATES, ENGRS, ENTRANCE TO HARBOR OF GUANTANAMO. (Showing Camps of the Marines.) dropped shells into the bushes, but the Spaniards kept reap-pearing at different places. In the end, however, the incom-parable superiority of the Americans in marksmanship, in cool-ness, and steadiness of nerve was triumphant. On Tuesday,the 14th, Colonel Huntington abandoned defensive tactics andsent out four scouting parties with orders to make an aggres- sive fight. This they did in a most effective manner. Each l
. An illustrated history of our war with Spain : its causes, incidents, and results. BRADlEri POATES, ENGRS, ENTRANCE TO HARBOR OF GUANTANAMO. (Showing Camps of the Marines.) dropped shells into the bushes, but the Spaniards kept reap-pearing at different places. In the end, however, the incom-parable superiority of the Americans in marksmanship, in cool-ness, and steadiness of nerve was triumphant. On Tuesday,the 14th, Colonel Huntington abandoned defensive tactics andsent out four scouting parties with orders to make an aggres- sive fight. This they did in a most effective manner. Each li i ^fig S> rr. S » 1ft. 3 O M ft y^. FACING AMERICANS FIRE G71 cletacliiiient fell in Avitli the skulking Spaniards and gradu-ally worked tlieni between their fires. Early in the after-noon, Captain Elliot drove the main body of the Span-iards over the erest of the third hill, where LieutenantMagill had another division, which poured a deadly fireinto them as they descended. They ran back to the crestof the hill, and this the Dolphin^ which was in position,swept with a murderous fire of 4-inch shells. The Span-iards rushed down the hill again, and again fell into theclutches of Captain Elliots men, including some Cubans, whofought their old enemies like demons. Spaniards were fall-ing all along the line, and they rushed back, endeavoring againto escape along the crest of the hill, and there they were againmet by the Dolphhis shells. Turn which way they would,they were face to face Avith an American fire that had nomercy in it. As the Spaniards rushed along the crest of thehill, they came face to face suddenly with a thir
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