Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1898-04-20
DAILY INDEPENDENT.
APRIL 30. 1898
A Month of Wars.


war with Spain will be declared be-
fore April closes. The St. Louis
GIobe-Gemocrat has been gathering
data covering the historic events Of
America. We quote the following:
On April, l9, ITS, Paul Revere took
that midnight ride" which Longfel-
low tells us OF, when he spread the
alarm through every Middlesex viii
lage and farm, for the country folk to
be up aud to arm" The next day the
"~embattled farmers" ut Concord
bridge Sired the shot heard around
the world" That was the beginning
Of the war of Independence. On
Apri! 19, 1873, the aid which France
promised the struggling Americans
when she recognized their Indepen-
dence she furnished, for IN that
day a French feet was ordered to
blockade the British 1arships which
we're in the Delaware. Frances as
sistance marked the turning point in
the fortunes of the Americans. in
April, 1871, the victories under Cen
eral Greene in the South were the be-
ginning Of that years series Of tri-
umphs which resulted in capture Of
CORVALLIS ut Yorktown and the close
of the war.
1t was IN April, 1872, that the end
came to the long series OF shuif1es and
]surrenders to England by the Jeffer-
son and Madison administrations. On
the 9Th day of that month, in that
year, congress passed d new embargo.
1t differed from tile previous non i'm
postation, embargo, non-intercourse
and other trade restriction acts which
covered the period between 1876 aud
1911. AL therese were directed
against England and France in retail.
iatiOp for those nations attacks on
American commerce, but experience
showed that they hurt the United
States more than they did the coun-
tries they were aimed at. The EN-.
barge of April, 1872, however which
WIS to last ninety days, was avowedly
Il preliminary to a war with England.
TIL" actual declaration OF war did
not come until June 19 Of that year,
but everybody on both sides of the
Atlantic knew when the embargo was
enacted that the conflict had virtually
begun. On April "a. 1916, IA large
body of MeXicans attacked and de-
feated ii smaller body Df Americans
near the Rio Grande and the war with
Mexico started.
In the war of secession April fig
ures prominently. On the 18th day
OF that month, in 1861, Fort Sumter
was attacked by General B~eauregard
and the great conflict which John
Bright, an enemy OF wars, called the
only righte his war of the century be.
gan. o. april Is President Lincoln
called for $4,000 volunteers, which
was an evidence that the Government
recognized the fact That a state of
war was in progress. Four days
later, ON the anniversary of the bat.
ties at lexington end Concord, the
opening fights Of the revolution, g
body Of Massachusetts militia, has.
tening to the defense Of Washington
fought their way through the streets
OF Baltimore, OF which occasion the
first blood Of the civil war was shed
Shiloh was fought and Few Orlean,
was captured in that month in 1862
the Vicksburg batteries we're run b,
Porter's fleet in that month in 1863
Grants Wilderness campaign starte'
in the same month in 1874; and ii
that month il 1865 the surrender a
Appomattox occurred, and Presiden
Lincoln was assassinated.