The Spanish Commander-in-Chief, General Linares, had fallen wounded, and the few surviving defenders of San Juan were running toward Santiago. It was

When the little fort was broken into, only one Spanish officer and four men were alive out of the entire garrison. The forces on the opposing sides

The Spanish garrison numbered thirteen thousand men, amply supplied with ammunition, behind trenches and barbed-wire fences which were so well

But he was not aware of the true condition of the roads. There were no roads.Continuing The Cuban Campaign,with a selection from The Rescue of

While Sampson was returning from his hunt for Cervera at Porto Rico, the Spaniard was sailing due northwest for Santiago de Cuba, which he reached on

A fleet of transport-ships conveying an army over hostile waters is at the mercy of even a very inferior enemy. A single well-directed shell or