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We cannot expect ever again to have an enemy so entirely inapt as Spain showed herself to be; yet, even so, Cervera's division reached Santiago on the 19th of May, two days before our divisions appeared in the full force they could muster before Havana and Cienfuegos.
A noise like that of a mighty cannonade seemed to shake even the solid walls of this buried chamber. It was the crash of thunder in the heavens overhead. It was Cervera's first intimation of the terrible tempest that had been gathering outside. At first she thought the sound was that of revolvers, and she darted to the door and listened, pressing her ear to the wall.
The Lessons of War in the Joy Over Peace in the Celebrations at Chicago and Philadelphia Orations by Archbishop Ireland and Judge Emory Speer The President's Few Words of Thrilling Significance The Parade of the Loyal League, and Clover Club Banquet at Philadelphia Address by the President The Hero Hobson Makes a Speech Fighting Bob Evans' Startling Battle Picture The Destruction of Cervera's Fleet The Proclamation of Thanksgiving.
Although numerous requests were made to the United States Government by her inventor and builder, John P. Holland, for permission to take her into Santiago harbour in an attempt to torpedo Cervera's fleet, the navy authorities at Washington refused this permission. Why? Presumably through navy hostility to the submarine idea.
The immediate return of the latter to the westward was dictated by reasons, already given in his own words, the weight of which he doubtless felt more forcibly because he found himself actually so far away from the centre of the blockade and from his base at Key West. When he began thus to retrace his steps, he was still ignorant of Cervera's arrival.
And Nick began to drive it from cover that very night. Shortly before nine o'clock, and just as the two detectives were parting from the Hindoo snake charmer, Mr. Rufus Venner rang the bell at the door of Cervera's uptown residence. It was answered by Cervera herself, much to Venner's surprise. "Where's the butler to-night?" he abruptly demanded, as he entered and closed the door.
"The matter is left to your discretion," the telegram read, "except that the United States armored vessels must not be risked." When Cervera's squadron was once cornered, an intelligent opponent would, under any state of naval preparedness, have seen the advisability of forcing him out of the port by an attack in the rear, which could be made only by an army.
"When Victor Blue, of the Suwanee, had proved beyond a doubt by going ashore and counting them that all of Cervera's ships were in Santiago Harbor, Hobson conceived the plan of keeping them there by taking in a ship and sinking it across the channel.
On the evening of May 13th, eighteen hours after Cervera's appearance at Martinique was reported, the two larger divisions, under Sampson and Schley, were consciously converging upon our point of concentration at Key West; while the third, the Oregon, far more distant, was also moving to the same place in the purpose of the Department, though, as yet, unconsciously to herself.
The next morning we hove-to a Norwegian steamer, the "Marie," and before we realized what was being done, we found that we had a prize at last. A snug little steamer she was, well loaded down with coal for Cervera's fleet. "Cutlets" went over in a whaleboat, with a prize crew of six men. "Well, well! this is almost too good to be true," said an after guard. "This is great luck.
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