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The Daily Dispatch: May 16, 1862., [Electronic resource], $25 reward (search)
Lovel, who were all eminently associated with the expedition be organised against Cuba, under the immortal Quitman, in 1854. The defence and destruction of Granada form the most brilliant episode of the war in Nicaragua, and furnish the most splendid proof on record of the invincible prowess and terrible audacity of the American volunteer in battle, when properly led. For nineteen days did Henningsen, in Granada, with less than 300 men, resist the allied forces of Guatemala, Honduras, and Costa Rica, with the insurgents of Nicaragua, a total force against him of 4,000 well armed men and equipped soldiers. Day after day he led his brave command in desperate and death-dealing sorties upon the enemy, and when forced back by the sheer weight of the brute mass before him, he burned the city step by step as he retired, fighting amid concentric circles of fire, until he received the order from Gen. Walker to abandon the position, which order he obeyed, after planting a standard on the main