Identifier: americaswarforhu00newy (find matches)
Title: America's war for humanity related in story and picture, embracing a complete history of Cuba's struggle for liberty, and the glorious heroism of America's soldiers and sailors
Year: 1898 (1890s)
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Subjects: Spanish-American War, 1898
Publisher: New York, St. Louis, N.D. Thompson Publishing Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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or, where he displayed a flag of truce andawaited a response. After the vessel had lain there a while, a launch put out, having onboard a Spanish naval officer. The American explained his business, andmade proposals for exchange. The Spaniards went back to Havana to conferwith General Blanco. They returned in an hour and brought a message fromthe Captain-General, saying that he had to communicate with Madrid andwould send an answer in a few days. Here ended the first conference. Two or three days afterward the men on our vessel saw a Spanish gun-boat, asmall affair, bristling with guns, put out from the harbor and run towardthem. The ship cleared for action. The gunboat kept right on, and just asour ship was about to send an inquiring shot at her she hoisted a flag oftruce. A tug was sent alongside her, and the officers on board the gunboatgave the commander of the tug a letter from General Blanco to deliver tothe captain of the war vessel. In the letter General Blanco said that after
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THE HOLLAND SVBMARINE TORPEDO BOAT. (From a Photograph.) 402 AMERICAS WAR FOR HUMANITY. mature deliberation the government had decided to consider no proposals forthe exchange of Lieutenant Hobson. The letter closed with a warning that any of our vessels venturingwithin six miles of the forts would be fired on, regardless of flags of truce. This warning was so absurd as to be amusing, as our vessels lay every daywithin four miles of the forts, and frequently ran right under them. But theoccasion presented an opportunity for the Spanish commander to indulge ina little cheap bravado, and he could not resist it. Blanco declared that Hobsonand his men were his prisoners, and he intended to keep them as long asHavana held out; adding, in the language of a common bully: If you wantthem, come and take them. This incident did more to convince our people that they were at warwitha moral degenerate and a barbarian than anything that had occurred sincethe beginning of the war. It changed the bel

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