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Title: 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
Year: 1898 (1890s)
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Subjects: Spanish-American War, 1898
Publisher: New York, St. Louis, N.D. Thompson Publishing Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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Every instant, everyshot, might mean their utter wreck, yet the thought in no way dauntedthem. Naked to the waist, with bare feet slapping the decks—the latter paintedred to match their blood when it flowed—the Yankee sailors swung andpointed their batteries with the cool valor of natural water fighters. Not ashot did they throw away. The day was hot and clear, as became a rainless day in the tropics.The gunners sweat as they toiled at their red trade. But it might have beentarget practice on some cool October afternoon of peace, for all the shot thatwent wild; and every discharge of a gun meant Spanish disaster. After an hour and a half of Fridays firing the Spanish ceased to reply.The Americans then drew off. When the dust blew away, it was seen thatthe Spanish works were in heaps, and their guns thrown about. 292 AMERICAS WAR FOR HUMANITY. All who could had fled from the Spanish fortifications. As the Ameri-cans drew away and the Yankee firing ceased, the Spaniards came timidly
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CARTOON REPRESENTING THE BLOCKADE OF CUBA. KEY WEST—MEANING OF THE NAME. 293 back—first one, then two, then ten, and went about looking after their deadand wounded. Being unmolested they took heart, and, securing carts, began to haultheir dead and wounded away. It was then the Americans counted theirgame, and found that of the two hundred Spaniards involved they hadbagged fully fifteen per cent. As they made no effort to repair the earthworkor remount their broken guns on Friday, the Yankees did no further firing.Friday night, however, they went to work again; in partial way werepatching up their defenses where the Hornet and Dupont had knocked themdown. It was eleven oclock in the morning when the Americans made thisdiscovery. On Friday night the Hornet and Dupont had stood off and on in thechannel. Saturday evening, discovering what the Spanish would be at in theline of repairs, the two steamed in again, and by noon had again knocked theSpanish defenses about the Spanish ears. K

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