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Title: The war with Spain; a complete history of the war of 1898 between the United States and Spain
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Morris, Charles, 1833-1922
Subjects: Spanish-American War, 1898
Publisher: Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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h it is a weapon that takes the place of the swordin war, and with which they can decapitate an enemy aseasily as they can shear through a sapling. Through the centre of the island passes a mountainrange, broken at intervals, but extending from end toend, and in the east turning and following the southerncoast past Santiago de Cuba to Cape Cruz. The rangeis highest in the eastern section, where it presents ruggedsummits over six thousand five hundred feet in height,though its average elevation is not over two thousandtwo hundred feet. The wooded heights of the moun-tains, the recesses of the densely-grown forests, and thedepths of the grassy jungle have furnished secure lurk-ing-places for the Cuban insurrectionists in all their out-breaks, to which they could retire at will and fromwhich they could break at unexpected points upon thefoe. To retire to the long grass, to use a commonCuban phrase, was to gain safety from pursuit, and anambushed host might lie unseen and unheard in these
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THE WAR WITH SPAIN. 41 secure retreats while an army passed by not many feetaway. In short, Cuba is a paradise for the bush-fighter,and all the contests in that island have taken the form ofguerrilla warfare, with its unpremeditated affrays and lackof definite results. The war with which we are concerned took, in part,the form of a hunt for the insurgents, in which theSpanish soldiers were, perhaps, none too eager to findthem, since they usually learned that they had caughta Tartar. In this exercise the Cuban Volunteers tooklittle part. They employed themselves in police andgarrison duties, leaving the work in the field to theSpanish soldiers, of whom during the ten years of warnot less than one hundred and fifty thousand were sentto the island. Of these more than one-half met theirdeath, largely through disease. While Cuba is very ill adapted by nature to regularwarfare, it was rendered more so by the inefficiency ofthe military authorities. The roads are abominable; eventhose near H

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