Image: Standard guide to Cuba - a new and complete guide to the island of Cuba, with maps, illustrations, routes of travel, history, and an English-Spanish phrase book (1909) (14801359763)

Description: Identifier: standardguidetoc00reyn (find matches) Title: Standard guide to Cuba : a new and complete guide to the island of Cuba, with maps, illustrations, routes of travel, history, and an English-Spanish phrase book Year: 1909 (1900s) Authors: Reynolds, Charles B. (Charles Bingham), 1856-1940 Subjects: Publisher: Havana : New York : Foster & Reynolds Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: e end of June, and onthe 1st of July the fleet on sea and the batteries on land opened fire onMorro. Captain Velasco responded, and with grapeshot and ball forcedthe ships to retire. For two weeks active fighting continued. Againand again the Spanish fortress was silenced, only to draw reinforce-ments from the ships in the bay, and to renew the fight on the morrow.La Punta and La Fuerza, the fleet and the floating batteries in theharbor trained their guns on the British. The besieging force sufferedintensely from the drought, the excessive heat, deprivation and hard-ship, and fevers contracted at Martinique; at one time 5,000 soldiersand 3,000 seamen were unfit for service. Their sufferings were aggra-vated by the scarcity of water. By the 14th the whole front of Morro exposed to attack was in astate of complete ruin; but the Spaniard still held out. Sappingoperations were begun, and by the 27th a mine had been completedunder the seaward bastion and was ready to be charged. Lord Albe- Text Appearing After Image: MORRO CASTLE. 69 marie sent a letter to Captain Velasco informing him of the fact, settingforth the hopelessness of the situation, and throwing upon him as thegovernor of the castle the responsibility for further bloodshed; and heassured him of his conviction that if the King of Spain were himselfpresent he would be the first to make a capitulation. To which DonLuis answered that he declined his Lordships overtures, and declared hisfirm resolution to defend the castle to the end. The next day the minewas fired, a breach in the wall made, and the British, storming theentrance thus made, rushed into the works and quickly made them-selves masters of the place. In the charge Captain Velasco fell, mor-tally wounded. Attended by a British lieutenant as a mark of cour-tesy, he was taken under flag of truce across the bay to the city, thatthere he might be the better cared for. He died the next day. Hos-tilities were suspended for his funeral. As his body was borne to itstomb in one of the ch Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
Title: Standard guide to Cuba - a new and complete guide to the island of Cuba, with maps, illustrations, routes of travel, history, and an English-Spanish phrase book (1909) (14801359763)
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Author: Reynolds, Charles B. (Charles Bingham), 1856-1940
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