Schley And Santiago
Subtitle: An Historical Account of the Blockade and Destruction of the Spanish Fleet
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Published: July 25, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 550
ISBN-13: 9780548043660
Subjects: European history (ie other than Britain & Ireland); Warfare & Defence; Europe - Spain & Portugal; Military - General; History / Spain & Portugal; History : Military - General; History - General History
First sentence: STANDING on the government dock at Newport News a pleasant morning, the 28th of March, 1898, with half-closed eyes one might have imagined, looking over the shimmer of blue water, that it was the days of '60; that just above, in the broad expanse of water lay the American fleet with old-fashioned woodwork, high masts, and masses of rigging.