Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. . tifications, twenty-four thousand prisoners, and alarge amount of arms and ammunition. At noon on Sunday, July IT, 1898,the American flag was hoisted over the headquarters at Santiago. General Miles started on the invasion of Porto Rico, July 25, and reachedGuanica at daylight next morning. He la
Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. . tifications, twenty-four thousand prisoners, and alarge amount of arms and ammunition. At noon on Sunday, July IT, 1898,the American flag was hoisted over the headquarters at Santiago. General Miles started on the invasion of Porto Rico, July 25, and reachedGuanica at daylight next morning. He landed with three thousand fivehundred men, marched toward Yauco, five miles distant, which he entered LEADING WARS OF THE CENTURY 399 after a skirmish, and was received enthusiastically by the citizens, as he alsowas at Ponce, where he was joined by General Wilson, who had come withthe war ships, and who was made governor. The army continued on to SanJuan along the military road, meeting very little opposition. July 26, the French ambassador, M. Jules Cambon, acting for Spain, madeovertures for peace. The protocol was signed on April 21, by M. Cambonand Secretary of State Day. A cessation of hostilities was proclaimed. Atthe very moment of the signing of the protocol, the last naval battle took. AGUINALDO, THE TAGAL LEADER. place at Manzanilla, Cuba, and an artillery engagement at Aybonito in PortoEico. The one-hundred-days Spanish-American war was concluded by the treatyof Paris. It will be only in the retrospect that we may tell the results of this con-flict. As the future unfolds them to our view, it may lie that it will havebeen more momentous in its consequences than we can now determine. Onething it has proved, that is, that this nation is really reunited ; for, from allsections and from all grades of life, men flocked together to fight aud con-quer under the old Stars and Stripes. 400 TRIUMPHS AND WONDERS OF THE XIXth CENTURY II. FOREIGN WARS. Napoleonic Wars. —The long
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