3-086-181 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Spanish-American War: views of St. Vincent, Cape Verde - the Spanish Flotilla at anchor off St. Vincent, 1898. 'From Photographs by Mr. F. B. Foy, St. Vincent. The long-expected has come at last, and war has been declared. On April 20 the United States Government at Washington performed the decisive act of committing itself to active hostilities...the Cape Verde Squadron of the Spanish Fleet sailed westward from St. Vincent, bound, it was thought, for Porto Rico'. From "Illustrated London News", 1898.