Spanish American War And Battles in the Philippines
Spanish American War And Battles in the Philippines
James Rankin Young
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The heavy cables had to be hauled up across the small boats, and then, by slow degrees, the tough steel wires were hacked off with axes, chisels and saws. After the volley had been fired by the Spaniards, the men transferred the dead and wounded to another boat, and began looking for the othei cable which ran east to Santiago. This was soon found, and again, under ♦. He canopy of shot and shell from the . Ships, they worked bravely on until a section of eighty feet had been taken from that one.... When our ships first opened fire on the shore it was the intention to allow the lighthouse to remain standing ; but when the Spaniard" poured their fire in upon the boats the men on the Marblehead dis covered that a large number of shots had come from the lighthouse. STIRRING EVENTS OF NAVAL WARFARE. 267 The guns of the cruiser were at once trained upon the building. The marksmanship was marvellous. First the small house about the base of the tower was literally torn to atoms, and then, like an axeman cutting down a tree, one of the great guns of the ship, with shot after shot, bit off the great tower at the top.
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