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The Fight For Santiago - The Story Of The Soldier In The Cuban Campaign From Tampa To The Surrender (1899) (Paperback)
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The Fight For Santiago - The Story Of The Soldier In The Cuban Campaign From Tampa To The Surrender (1899) (Paperback)
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for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE
FIGHT FOR SANTIAGO CHAPTER I HOW THE WAR BEGAN Had the Psalmist
lived to see that sight, he would not have written " terrible as an
army with banners," but drawn his simile from the spectacle of
those ashen-hued battleships, as they tugged at their anchor
chains, smoked with suppressed fury, and moaned hoarsely with the
rise and fall of the waves. Now and again one of the
sinister-looking torpedo-boats would whip in and out amid the
sullen squadron, peeping with open-eyed astonishment at the
floating volcanoes which were sleeping upon the blue waters of Key
West Bay. Perhaps you think for the moment that this little
messenger of war has at last brought the word which is to loosen
the leash that holds these marine monsters. Perhaps the spell is to
be broken, and from out of their ominous turrets will now belch
forth shot and shell, flame and desolation. You tremble, and are
not a little relieved when the sharp-nosed, sinuous craft glides in
and out, and is gone from view like a fish that dives beneath the
waves, leaving the battleships to ride with sullen, unsatisfied
moans, close to their anchor buoys. So they rode for days and
weeks, until the gray-green of their war paint grew mottled and
streaked with the brine of the sea; so they were held in check
while the vultures hovered over the blackened wreck in Havana
Harbor, while a greatpeople gave a sublime example of
self-restraint; while the provocation to war, the last argument of
men as well as kings, and perhaps the only argument which a savage
race will heed, was carefully, conscientiously weighed: until our
course became clear: until intervention in Cuba was accepted as a
duty, an inexorable duty, by the whole nation. It was a little
before midnight on April 22d. The great fleet of twenty-one sail
was as...
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