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Internationaler Buchtitel. In englischer Sprache. Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 356 Seiten, L=152mm, B=229mm, H=20mm, Gew.=522gr, Kartoniert/Broschiert, Klappentext: Purchase of … Plus…

Internationaler Buchtitel. In englischer Sprache. Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 356 Seiten, L=152mm, B=229mm, H=20mm, Gew.=522gr, Kartoniert/Broschiert, Klappentext: Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER I. ADMIRAL DEWEY ON HIS FLAGSHIP. A Stormy Day on Manila Bay?Call on Admiral Dewey?The Man in White?He Sticks to His Ship?How He Surprised Spaniards?Every Man Did His Duty on May-Day?How Dewey Looks and Talks?What He Said About War with Germany in Five Minutes?Feeds His Men on "Delicious" Fresh Meat from Australia?Photography Unjust to Him. Steaming across Manila Bay from Cavite to the city on an energetic ferry-boat, scanning the wrecks of the Spanish fleet still visible where the fated ships went down, one of them bearing on a strip of canvas the legible words "Remember the 'Maine, '" the talk being of Dewey's great May-day, we were passing the famous flag-ship of the squadron that was ordered to destroy another squadron, and did it, incidentally gathering in hand the keys of an empire in the Indies for America, because the American victor was an extraordinary man, who saw the immensity of the opportunity and improved it to the utmost, some one said: "There is the Admiral now, on the quarter-deck under the awning?the man in white, sitting alone!" The American Consul at Manila was aboard the ferry-boat, and said to the captain he would like to speak to the Admiral. The course was changed a point, and then a pause, when the Consul called, "Admiral!" And the man in white stepped to the rail and responded pleasantly to the greeting?the Consul saying: "Shall we not see you ashore now?" "No," said the man in white, in a clear voice; "I shall not go ashore unless I have to." Some one said: "This would be a good chance to go. Come with us." The man in white shook his head, and the ferryman ordered full speed, the passengers all looking steadily at the white figure until it became a speck, and the fresh arrivals were shown the objects of the greatest intere...<

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The story of the Philippines Natural Riches Industrial Resources Statistics of Productions Commerce and Population; The Laws Habits Customs Scenery and Conditions of the Cuba of the East … Plus…

The story of the Philippines Natural Riches Industrial Resources Statistics of Productions Commerce and Population; The Laws Habits Customs Scenery and Conditions of the Cuba of the East Indies and the Thousand Islands of the Archipelagoes of India and Hawaii with Episodes of Their Early History Events of the War in the West with Spain and the Conquest of Cuba and Porto rico Author :Murat Halstead 9780217134606 0217134602<