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The Spanish-American War: gun practice on board a Spanish torpedo-boat destroyer, 1898. Creator: Unknown.

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The Spanish-American War: gun practice on board a Spanish torpedo-boat destroyer, 1898. '...The preliminary alarums and excursions which followed the blockade of the western coast of Cuba by the American Fleet grew into the importance of a serious naval engagement...In the dark of Saturday night, the American Pacific Squadron arrived off Manila, on the south-west coast of the Philippine island of Luzon, and the capital of Spain's possessions in the East, and soon after dawn engaged both the forts of Cavité and Manila, protecting the bay, and the Spanish Squadron under Admiral Montojo with a fierce cannonade. The fight was long and stubborn, the superiority of the American war-ships being matched by the protection afforded to the Spanish Squadron by the land forts. Both sides seem to have sustained heavy damage. The Spanish cruiser Don Juan de Austria was blown up, and her commander, together with a number of her crew, was killed; the Spanish flag-ship Maria Cristina was burned to the water...other vessels of the Spanish Squadron were either burned or badly damaged. The first accounts of the conflict show that the American Fleet also sustained heavy loss and great damage in the course of the two engagements fought during the day'. From "Illustrated London News", 1898.

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Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

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HRM26A15_326

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Droits gérés

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27.1Mo (4.6Mo) / 30.8cm x 22.0cm / 3643 x 2597 (300dpi)

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