... superficial, for instance, than the remark of a popular writer that the days of tacks and sheets-of sailing ships, that is-have no value as lessons ...
... as every war does, characteristics of its own, differentiating it from others, nevertheless, in its broad analogies, falls into line with its predecessors, ...
... though not concluded until after they began. The wisdom of the step was justified not merely, nor chiefly, by the fine part played by that ship on ...
... what Martinique would be to France, engaged in important hostilities in the Caribbean, that, in measure, Puerto Rico is to Cuba, and was to Spain. ...
... be drawn is, that while sea-coast fortification can never take the place of fleets that while, as a defence even, it, being passive, is far inferior ...
... was always of another opinion, for I always said that whilst we had a fleet in being, they would not dare to make an attempt.. A fleet in being, ...
... its ships. The obvious palliative to the disadvantage thus incurred by Spain would have been to add to Cervera ships sufficient to force us at least ...
... at this time by the Admiral from the Department were reports of rumors that colliers for the Spanish division had been seen near Guadaloupe also ...
... the best having been done that could be in the circumstances, there was reasonable ground to believe that, by the time the enemy got through with her, ...
... and illogical in a vessel meant primarily for speed. A moment's reflection upon the services required of cruisers will show that their efficiency does ...
... fastest despatch vessels, likewise at their best steaming immersion, were to be held at Key West ready to start at once for Cienfuegos to notify the ...
... at Guantanamo, which she could have communicated to Schley. The latter, when he arrived off Santiago on the evening of the 26th, found the Minneapolis, ...
... the world. Even during peace negotiations, one's position is not injured by the readiness of the battle fleet. In short, it should be an accepted apothegm, ...
... looser views received passively as impressions, I have been ever careful to mark a distinction. In the first place, compulsory arbitration stands ...
... undone. Our own country has a special need thus carefully to consider the possible consequences of arbitration, understood in the sense of an antecedent ...
... nobility of her repentance. Spain repented not. The examples are before us. Which shall we follow. And is there not a stimulus to our imagination, and ...
... public, no man expects a matter to be fairly put forward. So far does this go, in the experience of the present writer, that one of the most reputable ...
... all its suffering, expense, and complication of embarrassments. Of course, therefore, a navy for defence only, from which an enemy need fear no harm, ...
... indeed, in the true sense that the best defence is to crush your enemy by depriving him of the use of the sea. We now come to the assertion that if ...
... may be that for the office next year, and may finally descend to a dependent, or be cut down for a child. Whatever money a nation is willing to spend ...