A. B. Feuer

The Spanish-American War at Sea (eBook, PDF)

Naval Action in the Atlantic

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

By piecing together diaries, letters, scrapbooks, and rare privately printed memoirs, the author has created a story which tells how America's ragtag navy-composed mainly of converted yachts, steamers and tugboats-was able to fight and win against the more powerful Spanish gunboats. The naval battles fought in places like Santiago, Cardenas, Cienfuegos, Manzanillo, Port Nipe, Guantanamo, San Juan, Guanica, and Ponce come alive in this book. The stories of the brave little ships that fought these battles-with names like the Gloucester and the Yosemite-at times against overwhelming odds, demonstrates the excellent training of the men who manned their guns under leadership of daring officers. This book fills in many of the missing pieces in the history of the Spanish-American War.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. September 1995
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780313022166
• Artikelnr.: 37824809

Autorenporträt

A. B. FEUER is a military historian and freelance newspaper and magazine journalist. He served in the U.S. Navy from 1943-1946 and is a member of the American Society of Journalists and Authors, the Society of Professional Journalists, and the Society for Military History. His previous works include Commando: The M/Z Unit's Secret War Against Japan (Praeger, 1996), The Spanish-American War at Sea (Praeger, 1995), and The Santiago Campaign of 1898 (Praeger, 1993).

Inhaltsangabe

The Life and Death of the U.S.S. Maine War is declared and the blockade of
Cuba begins The voyage of the Oregon The bombardment of San Juan, Puerto
Rico The attack at Cardenas The cable cutting at Cienfuegos Admiral Pascual
Cervera arrives at Santiago, Cuba The sinking of the Merrimac in Santiago
Bay The bombardment of the Santiago Harbor forts The capture of Guantanamo
Bay Lieutenant Victor Blue's journey to Santiago Harbor The U.S.S. Yosemite
and the Purisima Concepcion General Shafter's Fifth Army Corps lands in
Cuba Day of battle at Manzanillo The naval engagement at Santiago Bay
Captain Littleton Waller Tazewell Waller's story Lieutenant Commander
Richard Wainwright's story The surrender of Santiago and the battle at Port
Nipe The invasion of Puerto Rico The surrender of Manzanillo Epilogue
Addendum - List of U.S. Navy ships