3-086-442 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Spanish-American War: our special artist in Cuba, 1898. '1. Bow Gun of the Torpedo-Boat "Porter." 2. Antonio, our Cuban Saviour. 3. We Bathe in the Sea. 4. Dr. Elliot. 5. Our First Camp: Scovell Trying to Sleep. 6. On Board the U.S. Torpedo-Boat "Porter": Captain Fremont Sights the Enemy. 7. A Moonlight Concert: A Cuban Improvisatore Chants to the Machete. 8. Our Camp: "Once we had Coffee." The landing of United States troops for land warfare in Cuba has been actually commenced. At Guantanamo...a full battalion of Marines...were speedily put ashore, drove the Spaniards from their camp, with some fighting, and hoisted the American flag on the top of the hill. Fighting was renewed on Saturday afternoon, and went on in the evening and till after midnight, chiefly with detached pickets of the American troops. On Sunday morning, the naval squadron being augmented by the arrival of the Texas, Yankee, and [the Torpedo-Boat] Porter, the Spanish artillery was silenced...We hear of no further active operations in the neighbourhood of Havana or in the western part of the island. Meanwhile the camp at Caimanera has been abandoned, the Americans now occupying the Spanish rifle pits on the shore.' From "Illustrated London News", 1898.