 AM While advancing to the attack two mines were exploded ahead of the flagship, too far to be effective. The squadron maintained a continuous and precise fire at ranges varying from 5,000 to 2,000 yards, counter-marching in a line approximately parallel...  United States Naval Institute Proceedings - Page 394by United States Naval Institute - 1899Full view - About this book
 | Dummies (Bookselling) - 1899 - 587 pages
...effective. The squadron maintained a continuous and precise fire at ranges varying from 5,000 to 2,000 yards, counter-marching in a line approximately parallel...fleet. The enemy's fire was vigorous, but generally harmless. Early in the engagement two launches put out toward the "Olympia" with the apparent intention... | |
 | United States - 1899 - 636 pages
...the Olympia, but too far away to be effective, aud she and her companions bore steadily forward, " counter-marching in a line approximately parallel to that of the Spanish fleet," and maintaining a constant cannonade, wonderful for its precision, at ranges varying from 5,000 to... | |
 | James E. Homans - 1899 - 112 pages
...of the ' ' Olympia," too far away to be effective, and she and her companions bore steadily forward, countermarching in a line approximately parallel to that of the Spanish fleet, and maintaining a constant cannonade, wonderful for its precision, at ranges varying COMPLETE from... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Frank Weitenkampf, John Porter Lamberton - Biography - 1900 - 466 pages
...to be effective. The squadron maintained a continuous and precise fire at ranges varying from 5000 to 2000 yards, countermarching in a line approximately...ineffective. Early in the engagement two launches put out towards the "Olympia," with the apparent intention of using torpedoes. One was sunk and the other disabled... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Frank Weitenkampf, John Porter Lamberton - Biography - 1900 - 474 pages
...to be effective. The squadron maintained a continuous and precise fire at ranges varying from 5000 to 2000 yards, countermarching in a line approximately...ineffective. Early in the engagement two launches put out towards the "Olympia," with the apparent intention of using torpedoes. One was sunk and the other disabled... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Frank Weitenkampf, John Porter Lamberton - Biography - 1900 - 466 pages
...fire was vigorous, but generally ineffective. Early in the engagement two launches put out towards the "Olympia," with the apparent intention of using...the other disabled by our fire and beached before they were able to fire their torpedoes. At 7A.M. the Spanish flagship " Reina Cristina" made a desperate... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - United States - 1901 - 770 pages
...effective. The squadron maintained a continuous and precise fire at ranges varying from 5,000 to 2,000 yards, countermarching in a line approximately parallel...in the engagement two launches put out toward the Ofym/iia with the apparent intention of using torpedoes. One was sunk and the other disabled by our... | |
 | George Ramsey Clark, William Oliver Stevens, Carroll Storrs Alden, Herman Frederick Krafft - 1911 - 558 pages
...upon Dewey 's strategy. Again referring to the American commodore's account of the action, we find: "The enemy's fire was vigorous, but generally ineffective. Early in the engagement two launches put out towards the Olympia with the apparent intention of using torpedoes. One was sunk, and the other disabled... | |
 | William Oliver Stevens, Allan Ferguson Westcott - HISTORY - 1920 - 472 pages
...Dewey's report, "The squadron maintained a continuous and precise fire at ranges varying from 5000 to 2000 yards, countermarching in a line approximately...enemy's fire was vigorous, but generally ineffective. Three runs were made from the eastward and three from the westward, so that both broadsides were brought... | |
 | Walter Hill Crockett - Judges - 1921 - 778 pages
...squadron maintained a continuous and precise fire at ranges varying from five thousand to two thousand yards, countermarching in a line approximately parallel...ineffective. "Early in the engagement two launches came out toward the Olympia with the apparent intention of sinking torpedoes. One was sunk and the... | |
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