From 1800 to 1900The wonderful story of the century; its progress and achievements .. . il War. Inother chapters have been told the stories of the fight between Austrian andItalian ironclads at the battle of Lissa and of the Japanese and Chineseprogressin ironclad fleets at the battle of the Yalu. We have now to tell Naval War- the final events in naval warfare of the century, the epoch-making contest in Manila Bay, and the desperate flight andfight off Santiago harbor. If these examples of ocean warfare be contrastedwith those between the Constellation and the French frigates L Insurgenteand
From 1800 to 1900The wonderful story of the century; its progress and achievements .. . il War. Inother chapters have been told the stories of the fight between Austrian andItalian ironclads at the battle of Lissa and of the Japanese and Chineseprogressin ironclad fleets at the battle of the Yalu. We have now to tell Naval War- the final events in naval warfare of the century, the epoch-making contest in Manila Bay, and the desperate flight andfight off Santiago harbor. If these examples of ocean warfare be contrastedwith those between the Constellation and the French frigates L Insurgenteand Vengeance a century before, they will place in striking clearness theimmense advance in naval warfare within the hundred years involved. Of these two events the greatest was that which took place in ManilaBay. War, it must be remembered, is governed by a different system ofethics from that operative in peace. Though inhumanity in Cuba was thecause of the war, to strike the enemy wherever he could be found was thedemand of prudence and military science. Spain had an important posses-.
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