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Emilio, Luis F., History of the Fifty-Fourth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry , 1863-1865 | 102 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 30. | 16 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1, Mass. officers and men who died. | 16 | 0 | Browse | Search |
The Daily Dispatch: March 9, 1864., [Electronic resource] | 12 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 6. | 10 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) | 6 | 0 | Browse | Search |
William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 2 | 6 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 15. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) | 6 | 0 | Browse | Search |
The Daily Dispatch: March 10, 1864., [Electronic resource] | 4 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Santiago , naval battle of (search)
Santiago, naval battle of
See also Sampson, William Thomas; Schley, Winfield Scott; Spain, War with.
United States Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, in a narrative of the American-Spanish War, gives the following graphic history of the great naval engagement off the entrance to the harbor of Santiago de Cuba on July 3, 1898:
It matters little now why Cervera pushed open the door of Santiago Harbor and rushed out to ruin and defeat.
The admiral himself would have the world understand that he was forced out by illadvised orders from Havana and Madrid.
Very likely this is true.
It did not occur to the Spaniards that the entire American army had been flung upon El Caney and San Juan, and that there were no reserves.
Their own reports, moreover, from the coast were wild and exaggerated, so that, deceived by these as well as by the daring movements and confident attitude of the American army, they concluded that the city was menaced by not less than 50,000 men. Under these conditi
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Sedgwick , Theodore 1746 - (search)
Sedgwick, Theodore 1746-
Jurist; born in Hartford, Conn., in May, 1746; entered Yale College, and left it without graduating in 1765.
Abandoning the study of divinity for law, he was admitted to the bar in 1766.
An earnest patriot, he entered the military service and served as aid to General Thomas in the expedition to Canada in 1776, and was afterwards active in procuring supplies for the army.
Before and after the Revolutionary War he was a representative in the Massaehusetts legislature, and in 1785-86 was a delegate in the Continental Congress, also in the national Congress from 1789 to 1797.
He performed efficient service in putting down Shays's insurrection; and he was one of the most influential advocates of the national Constitution, in the convention in Massachusetts, in 1788.
He was United States Senator from 1796 to 1799, and from 1802 until his death, in Boston, Jan. 24, 1813, was a judge of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts.