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 . he results of Spanish-Christian conquestand colonization in South America, Mexico, and Cuba; for the Spaniardthroughout history has shown himself to be what the Saracen was not—aboaster, and sometimes a coward, a past master in cruelty, and a foe to prog-ress and enlightenment. In the very latest of Spains important wars, her people proved them-selves no braver in repelling the invader than their ancestors of a thousa
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 . he results of Spanish-Christian conquestand colonization in South America, Mexico, and Cuba; for the Spaniardthroughout history has shown himself to be what the Saracen was not—aboaster, and sometimes a coward, a past master in cruelty, and a foe to prog-ress and enlightenment. In the very latest of Spains important wars, her people proved them-selves no braver in repelling the invader than their ancestors of a thousandyears before. Newspapers have recently had the effrontery to boast of theirresistance to Napoleon, in his invasion at the beginning of the present cen-tury, as being, like their wars against the Moors, a proof of the spirit of thepeople. And yet the plain truth is that, just as in the former case, the morerecent episode was an indictment of the nations spirit and courage. HadNapoleon met with no more valiant resistance from other races, his careerwould have ended in no Waterloo, and the many hard-fought battles he wonwould have been without glory, as being mere X \V*RRir>RS fFrrnn a Phntoeraph 1 120 AMERICAS WAR FOR HUMANITY. In 180S Napoleon sent a small force, under one of his inferior generals,not even a marshal, into the heart of Spain. It seized Madrid without diffi-culty, and without the necessity of fighting an important battle. The onlyresistance was a small amount of guerrilla warfare, which expended itself insuch courageous expedients as poisoning the wells from which the Frenchsoldiers had to drink, and the like. But even such feeble attempts proved, inthe end, extremely annoying to the small French forces, and Napoleon, whohad hitherto treated the Spaniards with supreme contempt, not deigning totake personal part in the affair, took charge of the army. Exactly one weekof his personal supervision served to bring victory to the French arms every-where,
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