Life of Admiral George Dewey, Volume 20 |
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Admiral Dewey ADMIRAL GEORGE DEWEY admiral's Aguinaldo American fleet anchored Annapolis April ashore Asiatic squadron Asiatic station attack Baltimore battle of Manila Bay of Manila boats bombard Boston cadet Callao captured Cavite command Commodore Dewey Commodore George Dewey Concord Confederate consul crew cruiser deck Dewey's fleet enemy engagement Farragut fight Filipinos fire flagship flagship Olympia followed forts George Dewey German Goodwin gunboat guns harbor Hartford Hongkong honor insurgents Isla Islands knots Leyte Lieutenant Dewey main battery Manila Bay married McCulloch ment Merritt miles Mirs Bay Mississippi modore Montpelier morning Naval Academy Navy Department night nila o'clock officers Olympia passed paymaster Pensacola Philippines plebe Port Hudson Raleigh rifles river Roosevelt sailor Santa Mesa Secretary sent shell ships shore shot signal soon Spain Spaniards Spanish fleet steam steamer surrender thanks of Congress tion tons torpedo troops United United States Navy vessels victory war-ships Washington wounded Young Dewey
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Page 96 - The squadron opened fire at 5.41 am While advancing to the attack, two mines were exploded ahead of the flagship, too far to be effective. The squadron maintained a continuous and precise fire, at ranges varying from 5,000 to 2,000 yards, countermarching in a line approximately parallel to that of the Spanish fleet.
Page 97 - At this point I sent a message to the Governor-General to the effect that if the batteries did not cease firing the city would be shelled. This had the effect of silencing them.
Page 78 - The aggressors shall not profane the tombs of your fathers, they shall not gratify their lustful passions at the cost of your wives' and daughters' honor, or appropriate the property that your industry has accumulated as a provision for your old age.
Page 70 - Order the squadron except the Monocacy to Hong Kong. Keep full of coal. In the .event of declaration of war Spain, your duty will be to see that the Spanish Squadron does not leave the Asiatic coast, and then offensive operations in Philippine Islands.
Page 97 - At 7 AM the Spanish flagship Reina Christina made a desperate attempt to leave the line and come out to engage at short range, but was received with such galling fire, the entire battery of the Olympia being concentrated upon her, that she was barely able to return to the shelter of the point.
Page 111 - Asiatic station, for highly distinguished conduct in conflict with the enemy, as displayed by him in the destruction of the Spanish fleet and batteries in the harbor of Manila, Philippine Islands, May 1, 1898.
Page 77 - The North American people, constituted of all the social excrescences, have exhausted our patience and provoked war with their perfidious machinations, with their acts of treachery, with their outrages against the law of nations and international conventions.
Page 109 - By the 4th of May, Commodore Dewey had taken possession of the naval station at Cavite, destroying the fortifications there and at the entrance of the bay and paroling their garrisons. The waters of the bay are under his complete control. He has established hospitals within the American lines, where 250 of the Spanish sick and wounded are assisted and protected.
Page 104 - The cool bravery and efficiency of the commodore was echoed by every captain and commander and down through the lines by every officer and man, and naval history of the dawning century will be rich if it furnishes to the world so glorious a display of intelligent command and successful service as must be placed to the credit of the United States Asiatic Squadron under date of May 1, 1898.
Page 67 - FILL all your glasses full to-night ; The wind is off the shore ; , And be it feast or be it fight, We pledge the Commodore.