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The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Boys of ’98 by James Otis

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THE BOYS OF ’98

STORIES of
AMERICAN HISTORY

By James Otis

1.  When We Destroyed the Gaspee2.  Boston Boys of 17753.  When Dewey Came to Manila4.  Off Santiago with Sampson5.  When Israel Putnam Served the King6.  The Signal Boys of ’75
      (A Tale of the Siege of Boston)7.  Under the Liberty Tree
      (A Story of the Boston Massacre)8.  The Boys of 1745
      (The Capture of Louisburg)9.  An Island Refuge
      (Casco Bay in 1676)10.  Neal the Miller
      (A Son of Liberty)11.  Ezra Jordan’s Escape
      (The Massacre at Fort Loyall)

DANA ESTES & COMPANY
Publishers
Estes Press, Summer St., Boston

THE CHARGE AT EL CANEY.

[pg iii] THE BOYS OF ’98

BY
JAMES OTIS
AUTHOR OF
“TOBY TYLER,” “JENNY WREN’S BOARDING HOUSE,”
“THE BOYS OF FORT SCHUYLER,” ETC.

Illustrated by
J. STEEPLE DAVIS
FRANK T. MERRILL
And with Reproductions of Photographs

ELEVENTH THOUSAND

BOSTON
DANA ESTES & COMPANY
PUBLISHERS

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Copyright, 1898
By Dana Estes & Company

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER PAGE I. The Battle-ship Maine 1 II. The Preliminaries 19 III. A Declaration of War 38 IV. The Battle of Manila Bay 64 V. News of the Day 92 VI. Cardenas and San Juan 117 VII. From All Quarters 130 VIII. Hobson and the Merrimac 149 IX. By Wire 171 X. Santiago de Cuba 194 XI. El Caney and San Juan Heights 224 XII. The Spanish Fleet 254 XIII. The Surrender of Santiago 290

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right">XIV. Minor Events 302 XV. The Porto Rican Campaign 320 XVI. The Fall of Manila 335 XVII. Peace 345 Appendix A—The Philippine Islands 355 Appendix B—War-ships and Signals 370 Appendix C—Santiago de Cuba 379 Appendix D—Porto Rico 383 Appendix E—The Bay of Guantanamo 386 [pg vi]

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ILLUSTRATIONS.

PAGE The Charge at El Caney Frontispiece U. S. S. Maine 7 Captain C. D. Sigsbee 12 Ex-Minister de Lome 20 U. S. S. Montgomery 24

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tei-cell"> Major-General Fitzhugh Lee 30 U. S. S. Columbia 38 Captain-General Blanco 44 Premier Sagasta 49 President William Mckinley 55 U. S. S. Puritan 58 Admiral George Dewey 64 U. S. S. Olympia 69 U. S. S. Baltimore 72 Battle of Manila Bay 75 U. S. S. Boston 77 U. S. S. Concord 82 U. S. S. Terror 99 John D. Long, Secretary of Navy 107 U. S. S. Chicago 117 The Tragedy of the Winslow 119 U. S. S. Amphitrite

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pginternal" style="text-align: right" tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">123 The Bombardment of San Juan, Porto Rico 127 U. S. S. Miantonomah 130 Admiral Schley 135 U. S. S. Monterey 144 U. S. S. Massachusetts 151 Lieutenant Hobson 156 U. S. S. New York 161 Hobson and His Men on the Raft 166 Admiral Cervera 169 Queen Regent, Maria Christina of Spain 171 General Garcia 181 Admiral Camara 186 General Augusti 192 U. S. S. Marblehead 201 U. S. S. Vesuvius 207 U. S. S. Texas 215 Colonel Theodore

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Roosevelt 218 Major-General Shafter 224 The Attack on San Juan Hill 229 Vice-President Hobart 234 U. S. S. Newark 239 Admiral W. T. Sampson 243 General Weyler 254 Captain R. D. Evans 256 U. S. S. Iowa 262 The Destruction of Cervera’s Fleet 266 U. S. S. Indiana 269 U. S. S. Oregon 275 U. S. S. Brooklyn 282 Major-General Joseph Wheeler 292 King Alphonso XIII. of Spain 300 General Gomez 311 U. S. S. New Orleans 314

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tei-row"> U. S. S. San Francisco 318 Major-General Miles 320 Major-General Brooke 327 General Brooke Receiving the News of the
Protocol 333 General Russell A. Alger, Secretary of War 334 Major-General Wesley Merritt 344 Don Carlos 349 [pg x]