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We had been informed, as you know, by Castillo's people that we should find the dead guerilla a few hundred yards on the Siboney side of the Spanish lines." He then alludes to the waving of the guidon by K Troop as "the only means of communication with the regulars."
The plans of the conspirators were so carefully laid that had it not been for the accidental discovery of Castillo's letter, they would unquestionably have been carried out. The discovery of the conspiracy occurred about the time of the visit to Washington of Dr.
No appointment was made at the moment and, as it turned out, this was perhaps just as well; for by June 30 Luis de Leon had changed his mind, and appeared in court to ask that Castillo's name be removed from the list of acceptable patronos.
Francis, executed for the Capuchin convent, where his juvenile rival was likewise employed, "Non pinxit Alfaro." Years after, Palomino became sufficiently intimate with Alfaro, to ask him what he thought of Castillo's sarcastic inscription.
On Trafalgar Square he saw with his own eyes the results of those atrocities, when the few Spaniards, who escaped Castillo's clutches, came to seek asylum in England. There, at the great meeting, these men opened their shirts and showed the horrible scars of burned flesh.
Most readers today, for example, prefer Bernal Diaz del Castillo's True History of the Conquest of New Spain to Solis's History of the Conquest of Mexico.
At Guantanamo the Cuban forces under Garcia and Castillo killed 300 Spanish soldiers and routed the enemy's army there. Castillo's forces forced their way to within five miles of Santiago. The nation was thrown into a fever of excitement Friday when the following bulletin was posted at the War Department, in Washington: Camp, Near Sevilla, Cuba 5 Action now going on.
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