Hero Tales of the American Soldier And Sailor the Unwritten History of America
Hero Tales of the American Soldier And Sailor the Unwritten History of America
Henry Swain Simms
The book Hero Tales of the American Soldier And Sailor the Unwritten History of America was written by author Henry Swain Simms Here you can read free online of Hero Tales of the American Soldier And Sailor the Unwritten History of America book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Hero Tales of the American Soldier And Sailor the Unwritten History of America a good or bad book?
What reading level is Hero Tales of the American Soldier And Sailor the Unwritten History of America book?
To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
The enemy says 600, the Cubans 1, 000, and American army officers put the garrison at 1, 500 to 2, 000. Whatever the number, it fought to the death for nine hours and held Lawton at a time when he might have been useful before Santiago. The Spaniards did not come out to give us battle ; they fought mainly in trenches surrounding the fort and blockhouse and in those buildings. From a hill 2, 375 yards from the stone fort Captain Capron, father of the young officer of the Rough GLORIOUS STRUGGLE ...OF OUR ARMY BEFORE SANTIAGO. 273 Riders who was killed at Guasimas, opened the attack with a shell fired at 6. 35 a. M. At a body of Spaniards who were /ailing back to the trenches. One of his early shots went through the roof of the stone fort. The infantry was thus distributed : Chaffee's brigade of the Seventh, Twelfth and Seven- teenth Regiments advanced on Caney from the east. Colonel Miles' brigade of the First, Fourth and Twenty-fifth was to attack from the south, and Ludlow's, consisting of the Second Massachusetts Volunteers and the Eighth, and Twenty-second Regulars, was sent round to make an approach from the southwest.
You can download books for free in various formats, such as epub, pdf, azw, mobi, txt and others on book networks site. Additionally, the entire text is available for online reading through our e-reader. Our site is not responsible for the performance of third-party products (sites).
User Reviews: