Spanish-American War Fleet Bombards Santiago Harbor Forts
Reports from the Santo Domingo area recount American warships unleashing heavy bombardment on fortifications at the harbor mouth starting Saturday and resuming Monday. Americans claim silencing the forts, damaging Spanish ships, and landing marines near Aguadores as preparations build to assault Santiago de Cuba.
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Wohaltington
Santings Mesday
Ais
Gcorvera
Agrosse
Santinga
Dein Meércedes
Sampson
Navy Department
Reina Mercedes
Morro
Bocapa
Punta Gorda
Rande
Aguadores
Santiago
Santiago Harbor
Henrn Mercedes
Guantiniamo Bay
Santiago de Cuba
Tun Caimanera
Guantanamo
Sailors Sink Reina Mercedes at Santiago Bay
Generals commanding aries invade Cuba as Hobson and his crew attack the Reina Mercedes in Santiago bay. Explosions, gunfire, and shore batteries punctuate the battle while the cruiser sinks after the torpedoes detonate in the narrow passage.
Spanish forces lose positions near Aguadores bay
Reina Mercedes reports describe Spanish forces facing a joint insurgent American assault, with marines landing and capturing a fort that controls Aguadores bay, hoisting the Stars and Stripes. Artillery was brought ashore, fortifications strengthened, and Spanish troops shown as half-hearted.
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Bay of Aguadores
Santiago
Gen. Garcia
Gomes
Uip. Oo
Merrimac Sinking Story From Santiago Told By Officers
Commander Miller and Merrimac veterans aboard the Mayflower recounted the sinking plan at Santiago. They described firing from Morro, the ship aiming into a narrow harbor channel, dropping torpedoes and setting bulkheads to prevent raising the vessel, then opening seacocks as Spanish guns roared and powder lit the harbor.
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Hobson
Hobaon
Santiago
Miller
New York
Llobson
Frobson
War News in Brief Highlights Cuban Conflict Developments
Gov Pingree offers to shoe Michigan soldiers. Gen Blanco orders reporters to stay out of Cuba. Knight of the London Times freed from Havana. An auxiliary mortar fleet may bombard Havana forts. Garcia claims 10 000 Cuban troops. Spain to issue 1000 million peseta debt. Forty Krupp guns smuggled from Germany to Spain as kitchen furniture. French to Hayti cable cut by U S vessel crew. Congress passes post office at military posts. Dewey’s officers promoted for Manila bravery. Cavalry unlikely for the Philippines. Pinkerton called to hunt Spanish spies. Soldiers gain a special mail service privilege for unstamped letters.
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Pingree
Michigan
Blanco
Cuba
Knight
London Times
Havana
Garcia
Guban
Spain
Germany
France
Hayti
United States
Congress
Admiral Dewey
Manila
Philippines
William A. Pinkerton
Ambulance Ship Solace Brings 54 Wounded To New York
The ambulance ship Solace, flying the Red Cross, arrived in New York with fifty four wounded and sick. Some were transferred from American warships in Cuban waters and others from Key West hospitals. After a gale on the voyage, the patients found relief in cooler breezes and a path toward home in the United States.
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Solace
Red Cross
New York
Key West
Tompkinsville
State Island
Tropics
Sinking of Terror after Oregon shell off Santiago
Spanish torpedo boat destroyer Terror and about sixty sailors are believed dead after a single 18 inch shell from the battleship Oregon struck midships near the Cuban entrance to Santiago. The chase ended with a tangled mass of steel sinking to the sea bottom as New York, Brooklyn, Marblehead and Oregon continued the fleet advance. The incident followed the earlier Maine memory.
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Terror
Santiago
Oregon
Martinique
Porto Rico
Cervera
New Orleans
New York
Marblehead
Brooklyn
Maine
Invasion plan for Porto Rico in two coast landings
The campaign against Porto Rico is laid out with two Tampa sourced landings. One strike targets the north coast near San Juan and the other hits Ponce on the south coast. A military road from Ponce to San Juan could speed troops and amass insurgents to overwhelm Spanish garrisons and force surrender at San Juan after bombardment by Sara Thompson.
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Porto Rico
San Juan
Spain
Sarhpson
War Revenue Bill Passes Senate in Quiet Session
Senate actions yield passage of the war revenue measure with a 48 to 28 vote after limited amendments, including a 10 cent per pound tea duty. House moves to protect homesteaders, set conference between chambers, and approve related bills tied to Dawes commission agreements and Indian Territory allotments.
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Senate
Tillmas
South Carolina
United States
Allison
Messrs
Aldrich
Jones
Arkansas
House
Lacey
Iowa
Congress
Dalzell
Committee On Rules
Dingley
Bailey
Payne and
Dawes Commission
Serminole Indians
Soas
Spain
Indian Territory
Nock River
Illinois and Mississippi Canal
Illinois
Intergate
Newlands
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Sampson Shells Fortifications OF
Don Arsenio Linares
ARIES
Madrid
Santiago Bay
Uncle Sam
Irchtacm
Pyrenees
White
Hoyti
Bualueas
John J. Coppinger
WM. R. Shafter
George C. Remey
Tampa
Olympia
Victoria
Taccoma
Columbia
Arizona
Argyle
Northern Pacific Steamship Company
Col
Anson Mills
Third
United States Cavalry
Mexico
Minnesota
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