Commo dore Schley Seizes First Blow At Santiago Harbor
Washington reports highlight Schley earning distinction for striking the first hard blow in the Atlantic at Santiago de Cuba. The article recalls the obliteration of outer fortifications, Morro fort damage, and the American fleet pressuring Spanish defenses with the Merrimac mission and the destruction of the harbor’s channel barrier.
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Washington
Schley
Atlantic
Santiago de Cuba
Morro
Cervera
Kingston
Jamaica
Marblehead
Santiago
Mckinley Peace Terms Demand Puerto Rico Manila Cavite
The president’s reported peace terms with Spain would require Spain to cede Puerto Rico and Manila with Cavite, as conditions for ending the war. The package is said to be broadly acceptable to a majority of Senators, aligning with a firm stance on territorial gains.
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Puerto Rico
Manila
Cavite
Spain
Vast Army Moves to Santiago Under Gen Shafter
The first Cuba expedition departs Tampa with 46 transports carrying 26 000 troops horses wagons artillery siege guns and supplies for a six month campaign Gen Shafter in command Twenty thousand troops sail from Mobile The timetable suggests at least fifteen weeks to transfer 100 000 men across the gulf stream, implying a mid September completion for one third of the force.
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Shafter
Santiago
Cuba
Tampa
Mobile
Orto Rico
Gulf Stream
War News in Brief Sees US Cuba and Spain Actions
Gov Pingree offers to shoe Michigan soldiers and Gen Blanco orders reporters out of Cuba. London Times correspondent Knight released from Havana. An auxiliary mortar fleet may be organized to bombard Havana fortifications as advices from Gen Garcia of the Cuban forces arrive.
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Pingree
Michigan
Blanco
Cuba
Knight
London Times
Havana
Garcia
Spaniards' Matanzas Blockhouse Razed by Tugs Uncas Leyden
It was learned that a new blockhouse stood at Matanzas harbor entrance east of Pedro light. The fort, a small affair mounting one gun and manned by a small Spaniard company, was ordered destroyed by the tugs Uncas and Leyden, which steamed at noon on Monday.
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Key West
Miller
Hobson
New York
Matanzas Harbor
Pedro Light
Uncas
Leyden
Artillery duel shifts Morro walls and ships recoil
The Cristobal Colon and four batteries duel as American ships press the fortifications. Krupp guns exchange fire with sixes, eights, twelves and thirteens. Morro walls crumble, fire slackens, and the tugs withdraw amid heavy shelling. Spanish losses thought to be ten or twenty dead.
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Cristobal Colon
New Orleans
Massachusetts
Morro
Spain Debates Cuba Basis for Peace Talks
Diplomatic circles say no European government will act for Spain until Madrid agrees to Cuban independence as a negotiating basis. Officials note the Madrid government warns that accepting such a condition now could threaten the monarchy.
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Spain
Madrid
Army size and global tensions across headlines
Reports from overseas outline a 10,000 strong army unit and Spain seeking a 1 billion peseta debt. Smuggling of forty Krupp guns into Spain, U S Navy action cutting a Cuban Haiti cable, and promotions for Dewey's fleet. Projections on cavalry to the Philippines and Pinkerton’s government service are noted while neutrality strains between Germany and Britain emerge. London marriages decline and birth rates wobble amid sanitation studies.
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Germany
France
Cuba
Haiti
United States
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Manila
Philippines
William A. Pinkerton
Pyrenees
White
Michael O'Connor Roche
Hitness National Guard
Springfield
Chamberlain
Great Britain
Paris
United States Hospital
Brooklyn Navy Yard
London
Shirley F. Murphy
England and
Wales
London Mail
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King’s Highway
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