The New American Navy, Том 1Outlook Company, 1903 |
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administration Admiral Admiral Cervera American appointed armored cruisers authorized batteries battle-ship blockade Boston Brooklyn built Bureau of Equipment Bureau of Navigation Captain Cervera chief Cienfuegos Civil coal coast Collier Commander Commodore condition Congress construction Converted yacht cruising Cuban Dewey directed dispatch docks Drawn by Henry duties effective efficient enemy engineer corps enlisted established fleet Flying Squadron force foreign Gunboat guns harbor Havana Henry Reuterdahl industry instruction island Key West Lieutenant Lieutenant-Commander machinery Manila Bay manufacture marine men-of-war ment monitors Muller nation naval academy Naval Advisory Board Naval Constructor Navy Department navy-yard officers old navy Olympia operation Ordnance Photograph copyright port Protected cruiser REAR-ADMIRAL recommended repairs Revenue cutter Revenue Cutter Service sail Sampson Santiago de Cuba Schley Second Naval Advisory Secretary ships Spain Spanish Spanish squadron speed stations Steam Engineering steel Tatnall tion to-day tons torpedo torpedo-boat United vessels war-ships yards
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Страница 227 - Second. That it is the duty of the United States to demand, and the Government of the United States does hereby demand, that the Government of Spain at once relinquish its authority and government in the Island of Cuba and withdraw its land and naval forces from Cuba and Cuban waters.
Страница 227 - Third. That the President of the United States be, and he hereby is, directed and empowered to use the entire land and naval forces of the United States and to call into the actual service of the United States the militia of the several States to such extent as may be necessary to carry these resolutions into effect.
Страница 183 - The North American people, constituted of all the social excrescences, have exhausted our patience and provoked war with their perfidious machinations, with their acts of treachery, with their outrages against the law of nations and international conventions. " The struggle will be short and decisive. The God of Victories will give us one as brilliant and complete as the righteousness and justice of our cause demand.
Страница 227 - ... enter or leave the blockaded port, she will be captured and sent to the nearest convenient port, for such proceedings against her and her cargo as prize as may be deemed advisable.
Страница 182 - War has commenced between the United States and Spain. Proceed at once to Philippine Islands. Commence operations at once, particularly against the Spanish fleet. You must capture vessels or destroy. Use utmost endeavors.
Страница 102 - Navy, the chief officer of which shall be called the Secretary of the Navy, whose duty it shall be to execute such orders as he shall receive from the President of the United States, relative to the procurement of naval stores and materials and the construction, armament, equipment and employment of vessels of war, as well as all other matters connected with the naval establishment of the United States.
Страница 268 - and direct him to remain on the blockade of Santiago at all hazards, assuming that the Spanish vessels are in that port...
Страница 227 - An efficient force will be posted so as to prevent the entrance and- exit of vessels from the ports aforesaid. Any neutral vessel approaching any of said ports, or attempting to leave the same, without notice or knowledge of the establishment of such blockade, will be duly warned by the commander of the blockading forces, who will indorse on her register the fact, and the date, of such warning...
Страница 271 - ... and city in case an attempt should be made to force the entrance. The Colon is already at her post and the Teresa will be there shortly, the others will not be there until tonight or to-morrow, as they have to get water for their boilers. If another opportunity presents itself, I intend to try and take advantage of it, but as I cannot hope with these scant forces to attempt any definite operations, it will only be a matter of changing this harbor for another where we would also be blockaded.
Страница 15 - I cannot too strongly urge upon you my conviction that every consideration of national safety, economy, and honor imperatively demands a thorough rehabilitation of our Navy.