THE BOYS OF ’98
STORIES of
AMERICAN HISTORY
By James Otis
| 1. | When We Destroyed the Gaspee |
|---|---|
| 2. | Boston Boys of 1775 |
| 3. | When Dewey Came to Manila |
| 4. | Off Santiago with Sampson |
| 5. | When Israel Putnam Served the King |
| 6. | The Signal Boys of ’75 (A Tale of the Siege of Boston) |
| 7. | Under the Liberty Tree (A Story of the Boston Massacre) |
| 8. | The Boys of 1745 (The Capture of Louisburg) |
| 9. | An Island Refuge (Casco Bay in 1676) |
| 10. | Neal the Miller (A Son of Liberty) |
| 11. | Ezra Jordan’s Escape (The Massacre at Fort Loyall) |
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| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
| I. | The Battle-ship Maine | 1 |
| II. | The Preliminaries | 19 |
| III. | A Declaration of War | 38 |
| IV. | The Battle of Manila Bay | 64 |
| V. | News of the Day | 92 |
| VI. | Cardenas and San Juan | 117 |
| VII. | From All Quarters | 130 |
| VIII. | Hobson and the Merrimac | 149 |
| IX. | By Wire | 171 |
| X. | Santiago de Cuba | 194 |
| XI. | El Caney and San Juan Heights | 224 |
| XII. | The Spanish Fleet | 254 |
| XIII. | The Surrender of Santiago | 290 |
| XIV. | Minor Events | 302 |
| XV. | The Porto Rican Campaign | 320 |
| XVI. | The Fall of Manila | 335 |
| XVII. | Peace | 345 |
| Appendix A—The Philippine Islands | 355 | |
| Appendix B—War-ships and Signals | 370 | |
| Appendix C—Santiago de Cuba | 379 | |
| Appendix D—Porto Rico | 383 | |
| Appendix E—The Bay of Guantanamo | 386 |
| PAGE | ||
| The Charge at El Caney | Frontispiece | |
| U. S. S. Maine | 7 | |
| Captain C. D. Sigsbee | 12 | |
| Ex-Minister de Lome | 20 | |
| U. S. S. Montgomery | 24 | |
| Major-General Fitzhugh Lee | 30 | |
| U. S. S. Columbia | 38 | |
| Captain-General Blanco | 44 | |
| Premier Sagasta | 49 | |
| President William Mckinley | 55 | |
| U. S. S. Puritan | 58 | |
| Admiral George Dewey | 64 | |
| U. S. S. Olympia | 69 | |
| U. S. S. Baltimore | 72 | |
| Battle of Manila Bay | 75 | |
| U. S. S. Boston | 77 | |
| U. S. S. Concord | 82 | |
| U. S. S. Terror | 99 | |
| John D. Long, Secretary of Navy | 107 | |
| U. S. S. Chicago | 117 | |
| The Tragedy of the Winslow | 119 | |
| U. S. S. Amphitrite | 123 | |
| The Bombardment of San Juan, Porto Rico | 127 | |
| U. S. S. Miantonomah | 130 | |
| Admiral Schley | 135 | |
| U. S. S. Monterey | 144 | |
| U. S. S. Massachusetts | 151 | |
| Lieutenant Hobson | 156 | |
| U. S. S. New York | 161 | |
| Hobson and His Men on the Raft | 166 | |
| Admiral Cervera | 169 | |
| Queen Regent, Maria Christina of Spain | 171 | |
| General Garcia | 181 | |
| Admiral Camara | 186 | |
| General Augusti | 192 | |
| U. S. S. Marblehead | 201 | |
| U. S. S. Vesuvius | 207 | |
| U. S. S. Texas | 215 | |
| Colonel Theodore Roosevelt | 218 | |
| Major-General Shafter | 224 | |
| The Attack on San Juan Hill | 229 | |
| Vice-President Hobart | 234 | |
| U. S. S. Newark | 239 | |
| Admiral W. T. Sampson | 243 | |
| General Weyler | 254 | |
| Captain R. D. Evans | 256 | |
| U. S. S. Iowa | 262 | |
| The Destruction of Cervera’s Fleet | 266 | |
| U. S. S. Indiana | 269 | |
| U. S. S. Oregon | 275 | |
| U. S. S. Brooklyn | 282 | |
| Major-General Joseph Wheeler | 292 | |
| King Alphonso XIII. of Spain | 300 | |
| General Gomez | 311 | |
| U. S. S. New Orleans | 314 | |
| U. S. S. San Francisco | 318 | |
| Major-General Miles | 320 | |
| Major-General Brooke | 327 | |
| General Brooke Receiving the News of the Protocol |
333 | |
| General Russell A. Alger, Secretary of War | 334 | |
| Major-General Wesley Merritt | 344 | |
| Don Carlos | 349 |