Fall of Santiago Triggered U S Troop Deployment to Spain
Report from Puerto Rico dated July 15 details General Toral’s willingness to surrender Santiago and eastern Cuba. General Shafter and Miles agree to talks with Spanish commissioners. a mixed American and British-Spanish commission arranges the capitulation.
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Puaya del Esra
Tora
Santiago
Shafter
Spain
Toral
United States
Guanutanamo
Caimanera
Sagua
Santiago de Cuba
Bagua
Las Palmas
Asseradiero
Miles
Blanco
Robert Mason
Tolon
General Miles
Wheeler
Lawton
Miley
United States closes Santiago siege and pushes Porto Rico plan
The two week siege ends with Spanish surrender at Santiago. American losses include about 250 dead, 2,000 wounded or ill. Spanish losses far higher. General Miles to command Porto Rican expedition, Brooke to assist. 25,000 men eyed. Navy to aid San Juan effort. transports and immune regiments prepared for immediate deployment.
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Wasminton
United States
Spain
Santiago
Porto Rico
Alger
Havana
Bhaftor
Spalu
West Indian
Toral
Navy Department
Long
Watson
Asseradores
Bantiago Harbor
Palmero
Guantanamo
H. J. Allen
Kangan City
Mr. Allen
Garcia
Manzanillo
Holguin
Sampson
Morro Castle
Socapa
Caya Smith
Santiago City
Florida
Imore
Atlantic
Cuba
Department
Tampa
Charleston
New York
Key West
French Gunboat Held Up at Playa del Este Harbor
A French gunboat of about 2000 tons attempted to enter the harbor at Playa del Este at dusk without permission. The Marblehead fired blank shots and then a six pounder shell across its bows. The French vessel halted after a warning from the American cruiser, and anchored in the lower harbor for the night.
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Marber
Playa del Este
Praya den Este
Marblehead
McCalla
Stamp taxes on weddings ignite Milwaukee dispute
Revenue Collector Henry Finks asserts marriage certificates require 10 cent stamps under the new war tax law, while clergymen deny any tax. The act lists required documents and broadly states that other certificates must bear a stamp, triggering controversy over wedding certificates and their legality in Milwaukee.
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Milwavker
Spain
Revenue Department
Henry Finks
Coon
Fink
Letter From Germany A Rhine Journey 1898
A traveler recounts a July 1898 Rhine trip starting from Pflugstein and Remagen. The diary notes include Dresden like scenery, haying in progress, blue denim workwear, wooden shoes, and fields while passing Bonn and Cologne. Castles dot the hills with varied fates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Creyeld
Pflugstein
Germany
Remangen
Ahr
Dusseldorf
Bonn
de Lesseps
Nicaragua
Rhine voyage through German Switzerland and the Rhine Valley
A travel narrative describes short stops at Godesburg and Koenigswinter with their castles, the Drachenfels ruins, and Nonneworth convent. It follows the Rhine to the Appollinaris springs, Altenahr, and Ahr wine country, detailing vineyards, terraced hills, laborers, and towns like Nehnenahr and Adenauer, ending with moonlit Rhine views and Bonn Sabbath plans.
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Godesburg
Koenigswinter
Frederic Charles
Prussia
Crefield
Drachenfels
Seven Mountains
Rhine
Colonge
Byron
Nonneworth
Hildegunde
Roland
Rom
Roimagen
Switzerland
Victoria Berg
Zay
Nenenahr
Appollinaris Springs
America
Altenah
Ahr
Ahtweiler
Napoleon L
Aerweiles
Altvaler
Alterabr
Moselle
Altevahr
Remagen
Bonn
Munster
Julian Press
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Brooke
San Juan
J. A. Shepherd
Cincinnati
Jaws
B. J. Kay Medical Co
Sherman
James A. Shepherd
Omaha, Neb
J. A. Sheepherd
Pleasant Township
Appanoose County
Iowa
Vic Emmert & Co
Foley
Council
North Atlantic
WM. Bryant
H. G. Weber & Ca
Ely
Donlaing
Mercury
Hell
Silva de
Devils Or
Mall
ELY Brothers
Warren Street
Ald ‘Timms
M. J. Abbott
Jake Johnson
Dray Line
Johnson & Thompson
H. G. Weber & Co
John H. Wood
Vieth Street
Postoffice
Acre
Wa’ Bryant
F. Parsons & Co
Towa
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