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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Guantanamo Bay, (search)
g 38 miles east of Santiago, Cuba; one of the best on the southern coast of the island. The town and fort of the same name are located about 5 miles back of the bay. To the left of the entrance is a strip of low, swampy land, while at the right there is a line of steep, rocky hills, which extend from the shore inland for a mile. Just outside of this bay United States warships made an attempt in the early days of the war of 1898 to cut the very important cables which ran from Santiago to Guantanamo and thence to Spain. Had this attempt succeeded Cuba would have been entirely isolated from the mother-country. On May 18, the St. Louis and the tug Wampatuck approached the mouth of the harbor, but the heavy fire from the Spanish batteries and the gunboat in the bay forced the Wampatuck to retire after grappling one of the cables within 800 yards of the shore. On the hills before mentioned the Spaniards had constructed earthworks and rifle-pits commanding the entrance of the bay. On J
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Sampson, William Thomas 1840- (search)
The distance of the vessels from the harbor entrance was from 2 1/2 to 4 miles, the latter being the limit of the day blockading distance. The length of the arc formed by the ships was about 8 miles. the Massachusetts had left at 4 A. M. for Guantanamo for coal. Her station was between the Iowa and the Texas. The auxiliaries Gloucester and Vixen lay close to the land and nearer the harbor entrance than the large vessels, the Gloucester to the eastward and the Vixen to the westward. The tornish ship should appear. The commanding officers merit the greatest praise for the perfect manner in which they entered into this plan and put it into execution. the Massachusetts, which, according to routine, was sent that morning to coal at Guantanamo, like the others had spent weary nights upon this work, and deserved a better fate than to be absent that morning. I enclose for the information of the department copies of orders and memoranda issued from time to time relating to the manner
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Santiago, naval battle of (search)
ney, the New York had started to the eastward, and was 4 miles away from her station when, at the sound of the guns, she swung round and rushed after the running battle-ships, which she could never quite overtake. It was a cruel piece of ill fortune that the admiral, who had made every arrangement for the fight, should, by mere chance of war, have been deprived of his personal share in it. Equally cruel was the fortune which had taken Captain Higginson and the Massachusetts on that day to Guantanamo to coal. These temporary absences left (beginning at the westward) the Brooklyn, Texas, Iowa, Oregon, Indiana, and the two converted yachts Gloucester and Vixen lying near inshore, to meet the escaping enemy. Quick eyes on the Iowa detected first the trailing line of smoke in the narrow channel. Then the The relative positions of the ships in the battle of July 3, 1898, off Santiago. The last of the Almirante Oquendo. Brooklyn saw them, then all the fleet, and there was no need of
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Sargent, Herbert Howland 1858- (search)
Sargent, Herbert Howland 1858- Jurist; born in Carlinville, Ill., Sept. 29, 1858; graduated at Blackburn University in 1878 and at the United States Military Academy in 1883; was on frontier duty till the outbreak of the war with Spain; organized volunteers in Washington in May, 1898; and was appointed colonel of the 5th United States Volunteer Infantry the same month; served at Santiago and Guantanamo, Cuba; returned to the United States with his regiment, May, 1899; was promoted captain of cavalry, March 2, 1899, and appointed lieutenant-colonel of the 29th United States Volunteer Infantry in July following. In October he sailed for Manila with his regiment; fought against the insurgents in the island of Luzon; and commanded the assaulting forces during the action in which General Lawton was killed at San Mateo, Dec. 19, 1899. He is the author of Napoleon Bonaparte's first campaign; and The campaign of Marengo.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Spain, War with (search)
, 1741, a British fleet, under Admiral Vernon, sailed to Guantanamo, and a force of 5,000 men under General Wentworth, of thh force approximates 12,000 between Santiago de Cuba and Guantanamo, 3,000 militia. Will maintain a Cuban force near Holgui and three thousand (3,000) militia between Santiago and Guantanamo. He has sent force in order to prevent aid going to San2,000 men, under Perez, to oppose the 6,000 Spaniards at Guantanamo, and they were successful in their object. He also sentults, as they, and the United States marines landed near Guantanamo, were the only troops who had been contending against thantage. After four days of most active preparation at Guantanamo, the expedition sailed on the afternoon of July 21, undeof the battle-ship Massachusetts. Before sailing from Guantanamo I had expected to receive from the harbor of Santiago tuby the President June 13. June 11. Marines landed at Guantanamo, and skirmished with the Spaniards the following day.