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Updated: May 19, 2025
One needed a pass to enter or to leave Puerto Principe, and, moreover, the city had no suburbs, no scattered residences outside its boundaries: when one came to the end of a street one found oneself in an open field faced by a barbed-wire barrier, and on every road leading from the town stood a fortina, a little fort of brick or logs, in which were stationed Spanish soldiers.
Cavalry afterward appeared at Fortina, but remained there only long enough to see the torpedo-boat’s menacing attitude. May 6. The cruiser Montgomery, Captain Converse, was the first ship of the American squadron to acquire the distinction of capturing two prizes in one day, which she did on the sixth.
"And the rising sun? You think it will be called Kaunitz?" "Will be? It is called Kaunitz: so take my advice. Kaunitz I know, is not a man to be bribed; but he has two weaknesses women and horses. You are, for the present, the favorite of La Fortina; and yesterday you won from Count Esterhazy an Arabian, which Kaunitz says is the finest horse in Vienna.
The lieutenant shook his head. "I am a friend a Cuban, in spite of this uniform. If you repeat my words I shall be shot within the hour. I implore you" his voice became more urgent "to heed my warning. I don't know what you had to do with this skirmish out San Rafael Street, but a short time ago a message came from the fortina that Insurrectos were in the woods close by.
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