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This Is A New Release Of The Original 1900 Edition.
Text extracted from opening pages of book: HEYDAY IN A VANISHED
WORLD Stephen' Bonsai e opy right, 1 93 7, by TO R. M. B, NAME
CHILD AND VOTARY OF ST. RITA TIRELESS ADVOCATE OF SEEMINGLY
UNATTAINABLE BLESSINGS WITH THANKS So they hunted > and they
holloaed till the setting of the And they* d nought to bring away
at last when th* huntin* day was done Look ye therel Then one unto
the other $ a* d> This hwttin* doe$ n* t fay But we* ve frowlft
up an* down a bit an* had a rattlin* day* Look ye ther* t OLD
BNGLIftH SONG CONTENTS 1. FIRST GALLOP 9 2. PARNELL AND KITTY
o'sHEA 1 7 3-THE PRINCE AND THE PUGILIST 33 4* VALE IMPERATOR SENEX
AND JOHN L. SULLIVAN 59 5, WHEN GENTLEMEN FELL OUT 68 6. THE
DUCHESS AND HER STAG HOUNDS 98 7* A MAN ON HORSEBACK 106 8*
BOULANGER DISMOUNTED 124 9-THE STORY OF A GREAT BEAT 144 JO, IN THE
BALKANS 176 11. THE LAND OF INCORRUPTIBLE VIRGINS 207 12. THE
VEILED PROPHET OF THE SAHARA 228 13. COURT LIFE IN BULGARIA 26* 14.
SERBIAN TRAGEDY MAGYAR DIVERTISSEMENT 295 15. ABDUL HAMID THE GREAT
ASSASSIN 324 1 6* BELGRADE AND THE PIG WAR 344 J7 VON MOLTKE AND
THE MEN OF MARX 362 1 8. AN IMPERIAL PUBLICITY STUNT 392 1 9* HOME
DEFEAT AND VICTORY 416 INDEX 441 HEYDAY IN A VANISHED WORLD
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++++ The Fight For Santiago: The Story Of The Soldier In The Cuban
Campaign, From Tampa To The Surrender Stephen Bonsal Doubleday
& McClure Co., 1899 Santiago Campaign, 1898; Spanish-American
War, 1898
1900. Extracts from the letters of Captain H.L. Herndon of the 21st
U.S. Infantry, on duty in the Philippine Islands, and Lieutenant
Lawrence Gill, A.D.C. to the Military Governor of Puerto Rico. With
a Postscript by J. Sherman, Private, Co. D, 21st Infantry. From the
Editor's Preface: As I read and read again the following
correspondence between two inconspicuous actors in some of the
stirring events that have marked the closing year, my impression
that these letters constitute a document of history almost
indispensable for the understanding of the new era, which began
with the Treaty of Paris, grew into a settled conviction. Strong in
this belief I spared no effort, and have at last been successful in
overcoming the natural reluctance of those to whom the letters were
addressed, to seeing words, which were written for the information
and consolation of a narrow circle of family and friends, laid bare
to the colder scrutiny of the greater public.
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Title: The Fight for Santiago: the story of the soldier in the
Cuban campaign from Tampa to the surrender ... With maps and
illustrations.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print
EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United
Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries
holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats:
books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps,
stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14
million books, along with substantial additional collections of
manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The
MILITARY HISTORY & WARFARE collection includes books from the
British Library digitised by Microsoft. This series offers titles
on warfare from ancient to modern times. It includes detailed
accounts of campaigns, battles, weapons, as well as the soldiers
and commanders who devised, initiated, and supported war efforts
throughout history. Specific analyses discuss the impact of war on
societies, cultures, economies, and changing international
relationships. ++++The below data was compiled from various
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edition identification: ++++ British Library Bonsal, Stephen; 1899
xxviii, 543 p.; 8 . 9772.d.19.
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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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