Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1898-12-29
reorganization of disbanded Thirteenth

22-Cruiser Charleston sails for Manila.
23-Troops A and c arrive at Camp Aiger,
Falls Church, Va.
24-The Spanish fleet Is bottled up at San
tago.
25-Three transports with 25SS men start
for Manila. i. President issues call for
$4,000 more volunteers.
arrives in Key West. One of
Span's cabinet ministers said the coun-
try was willing to accept IAN honorable
peace. Commodore Schley is in touch
with the insurgent leaders. Florida
expedition landed without opposition
near Guantanamo, Cuba.
scout ships chased by American
warships near Key West.
Schley reports the trapping
of Ceryera in the harbor of Santiago de
Cuba. Cruiser Columbia arrives at
New York, having been in collision with
the British steamship Foscolia, which
sank.
embark at Tampa for Havana.
31-Rear Admiral Simpsons fleet bombards
forts of Santiago de Cuba.
June.
transports for Manila arrive at Homo
lulu, Hawaii, and the Boys in Blue be-
come the guests of the city. Monitor
Monadnock ordered to Manila from San
Francisco.
2-Spain again appeals to the Powers to
intervene
3-American squadron bombarded Santiago
de Cuba.
4-L:eut Hobson sinks cruiser Merrimac
in the mouth of the harbor of Santiago
de Cuba.
6-Fortifcations Of Santiago de Cuba re-
duced.
7-American squadron bombards and ST.
lences batteries at Santiago. Monitor
Monterey and collier Brutus sail for
Manila.
S-ASsault on Notifications of Guantanamo
Bay.
9-House agrees on war revenue conference
report.
10-Admiral Sampson reports he has held
Guantanamo harbor since the 7th. -.
Senate agrees on conference report on
war revenue bill
11-Four Americans at Caimanera are killed
in fight with the Spanlards.
13-Thirty-two transports with Skaters
troops sail for Santiago. >. President
Mckinley signs the war tax bill.
1.-Two Americans and several hundred
Spaniards killed in a battle at Cal
manera.
15-Second expedition sailed from San Fran
cisco for Manila. :. Great destruction
results to Santiago forts through the use
of the dynamite guns on the Vesuvius.
17-SpaniSh squadron sailed from CadlZ and
passed Gibraltar.
with Gen. Skaters troops
arrive off Santiago.
22-Part of Skaters troops landed.
of troops landed without acct
dent. VI. Admiral Camaras Cadiz fleet
arrives at Island Of Pantellaria.
24-Sixteen American soldiers killed and
forty wounded in driving back Spanish
soldiers at Santiago.
27-Commodore Watson to command feet to
attack Spanish home territory. .Presi-
dent Mckinley recommends thanks Of
Congress for Lieut.. Hobson, and that he
be transferred to the line.
proclaims blockade of South
ern Cuba from Cape Frances to Cape
Cruz.
29-Gen. Shafter reports he can take San
tiago in forty eight hours. The Senate
thanks Lieut.. Hobson and his men, nam
ing each one personally.
Government refused to let
Camara coal his feet at Port Said.
July.
1-Shafter's army began the assault upon
Santiago de Cuba, capturing the enemy's
outer works.
2-Shafter renewed the attack upon San
tiago, losing about 1000 in killed and
wounded, and making 1000 Spanish
prisoners. The Spanish casualties prob
ably exceeded those Of the Americans.
3-Cervera's fleet destroyed at Santiago,
with great loss of life.
6-Spanish transport Alfonso XII. blown
up off Murfel by American gunboats. 80.
Hobson, the hero Of the Merrimac, and
his comrades exchanged for Spanish
prisoners outside Santiago.
7-President signs Hawaiian annexation
resolution. Admiral Dewey took Subig
and 1900 prisoners.
11-Cruiser st. Louis brings Admiral Ger
vera and 746 prisoners to Portsmouth.
N H.. Admiral SIMPSONS fleet bonn
barded Santiago.
that yellow fever has broken
out in Gen. Skaters army.
14-Gen. Toral and the. Spanish army sur
rendered Santiago at p. m.
17-"Old Glory" raised over Santiago at
issues a proclamation proyid-
ing for the government Of Santiago. 80.
,0rian ,nnlc how, how
zanillo and destroy seven Spanish ships.
21-Gen. Miles, with 3,415 men on trans
ports, conveyed by warships, starts to
take Porto Rico. American gunboats
capture Nipe and sink the Spanish cruis-
er Jorge Juan. Gen. Calixto Garcia,
commander of the Cuban army Of East.
ern Cuba, owing to discomfort because
the American Government has ignored
him and his troops in the surrender of
Santiago, withdrew. News reached this
country that the second expedition to re-
enforce Admiral Dewey had arrived at
Cavite.
declared himself dictator Of
the Philippines.
expedition for the Philippine
Islands sailed from San Francisco.
25-Gen Miles and $500 men reach Guam
leo, Porto Rico and effect a landing.
Day, NJ. Cambon, French am
bassador, and his first secretary, NJ.
Thiebaut, confer With President McKin
ley In regard to terms of peace.
27-The port of Ponce, Porto Rico, surrend
ers to Capt. Davis, of gunboat Dixie.
30-News of Gen Merritt's arrival at Cavite
received at Washington. Dewey In
forms the President that Agunaldo, the
Philippine insurgent chief, assumed
defiant attitude
31-The Spanish forces at Cavite made a
sortie during fierce storm on the Amer
lean troops I'm the Malate trenches. They
were repulsed with heavy loss Ten of
Gen. Merritt's men were killed and for
ty-eight wounded.
August.
2-President Mckinley makes public the
terms Of peace offered to Spain by the
United States.
4-The monitor Monterey and its consort
Brutus. arrive at Manila. Gen. Shat
ter and his subordinates ask that the
fever-stricken army at Santiago de Cuba
be removed north.
5-Formal orders issued for the removal Of
Gen. Skaters army to this country.
6-Spain accepts the terms of peace offered
by the United States. .Guayamo, Porto
Rico. captured by Gen. Haines forces.
Three Americans cornered.
Spain accepts President McKinley's
peace terms Certain representations