Identifier: navalbattlesofam00ship (find matches)
Title: Naval battles of America; great and decisive contests on the sea from colonial times to the present, including our glorious victories at Manila and Santiago;
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Shippen, Edward, 1826- (from old catalog)
Subjects: United States. Navy
Publisher: Philadelphia, P. W. Ziegler co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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gloomily dark. For the sake of her gal-lant mates, this ship shall be nameless. She had hauleddown her colors about the same time that the Ulloa hadrefused to do so, and had gone down with them all aflut-ter. A boats crew from the McCulloch was signaled togo and take possession of this ship, when to our amaze-ment she opened fire on the approaching gig. The en-sign stood up in the stern in open-mouthed wonder atsuch a piece of treachery, but kept his boat along hercourse. The incident had not passed unobserved by thesquadron, however, and the Spaniards fate was a swiftone. There was no need for the Commodore to fly asignal, for it was as with a common impulse that everyone of our vessels stopped firing at the enemy in general,and directed every available shot at that Spaniard inparticular. The bay leaped up and foamed around thetraitorous vessel as though it had been struck by thewhip-end of a Texas tornado, and when the waters wereat rest again the Spaniard had vanished as completely
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Deweys triumph at Manila. 369 as though that tornado had carried her bodily into aneighboring State. At 12.20 P. M. the signal, We surrender! wasshown from Cavite. The dazzling work was done, thebattle ended after five hours of spectacular fighting.His work of destruction completed, Dewey now turnedto a task of mercy—that of rescuing and caring for thevanquished. These he established in hospitals on shore.To Admiral Montojo he sent the following message: I have pleasure in clasping your hand and offeringmy congratulations on the gallant manner in which youfought. Dewey had seen hot work before. He received hisbaptism of fire in the old steam-sloop Mississippi,under Farragut, in the early days of the civil war. Buthe had never been called to confront such problems ascame with the responsibility of victory. He had crushedthe naval power of Spain in the East. But the Spanisharmy lay intact in Manila, whose conquest was desirable,but impossible without an army to occupy the place.Manila

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