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The Spanish-American War: vessels of the Spanish squadron which left Curaçoa on May 15, 1898. Creator: Unknown.

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The Spanish-American War: vessels of the Spanish squadron which left Curaçoa on May 15, 1898. Oquendo, Cruiser; Torpedo-Boat; Cristóbal Colon, Cruiser; Torpedo-Boat; Vizcaya, Cruiser; Torpedo-Boat; Infanta Maria Teresa, Cruiser; Torpedo-Boat. The American squadron...withdrew to Key West, its station at the southern extremity of Florida. Admiral Sampson could not then be aware that the Spanish squadron was lying at Martinique, which is distant only four hundred miles from where he was on the coast of Porto Rico...The Spanish squadron under Admiral Cervera...took no advantage of its position off Martinique, but made for Willemstad, Curaçoa, where it coaled and provisioned on May 15. The fleet left Curaçoa again the same evening. The United States Government has since Friday countermanded its orders with respect to the immediate collection of a large army at Tampa, in Florida, to be landed in Cuba. This operation is deferred until after the expected naval battle'. From "Illustrated London News", 1898.

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Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

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HRM26A15_437

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48.9Mo (3.2Mo) / 42.7cm x 28.7cm / 5041 x 3389 (300dpi)

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