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	Santiago - LoveToKnow 1911
		SANTIAGO, Or Santiago De Chile, a city of Chile, capital of the republic and chief town of a province of the same name, on the Mapocho river, a small tributary of the Maipu or Maipo, 115 m.
		Santiago is laid out with great regularity, and its comparatively broad straight streets form parallelograms and enclose several handsome public squares, the Plaza de la Independencia, the Campo de Marte and others.
		Santiago was founded in 1541 by Pedro de Valdivia, who was engaged in the conquest of Chile, and it received the title of Santiago del Nuevo Estremo.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Santiago (625 words)

	Siege of Santiago - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Siege of Santiago also known as the Siege of Santiago de Cuba was the last major operation of the Spanish-American War on the island of Cuba.
		On July 3, the same day as the Battle of Santiago de Cuba, Major General William "Pecos Bill" Shafter began the siege of Santiago.
		The Siege of Santiago effectively ended the major fighting on Cuba, but the war was not yet over.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Siege_of_Santiago (663 words)

	Sierra Maestra Online. The Official Newspaper of Santiago de Cuba
		The July 26th Movement assigned them the mission of attacking the police station at Intendente Hill, an action that was part of an armed uprising in the eastern city aimed at distracting the attention of the repressive forces from the participants of the Granma expeditionary force, whose arrival was scheduled on that date.
		History would converge again in Santiago de Cuba, city where the last stage of the popular struggle for freedom began with the attack to the Moncada Garrison on July 26 th 1953, vital not only for it was the second most important military fortress in the nation, but also because of what it meant.
		Santiago, enclosed by a belt of mountains and rebel fire, was like a powder keg about to explode.
	www.sierramaestra.cu /eng/history.htm (2608 words)

	Untitled Page
		SANTIAGO, CHILE---In Santiago and other urban areas near the sprawling capital of Chile, an invasion of subterranean termites is gnawing away on thousands of homes, causing fear and confusion among residents who don’t know how to stop the destruction.
		In Santiago, the nation’s largest city with more than 5 million residents, Su is working with James Smith, an entomologist and commercial pest control operator, to battle the termite problem that now affects all areas of the city.
		Smith, who owns Terminator Systems in Santiago, said termite control may not be a high governmental priority in the poorer areas of the city where people worry about feeding and caring for their families.
	news.ifas.ufl.edu /story.aspx?id=935 (1656 words)

	Where to Go in Santiago \| iExplore.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Santiago is not famed for its architectural heritage, unlike other Latin American cities such as Mexico City or Buenos Aires.
		Santiago is easy to master, as many of the city’s main attractions are located in the small downtown area sandwiched between the Rio Mapocho (Mapocho River), Avenida Bernado O’Higgins (Alameda) and Cerro Santa Lucia.
		Santiago’s most attractive features are its four huge parks that offer spectacular views of the Andes, as well as welcome respite from the city’s traffic.
	www.iexplore.com /cityguides/Chile/Santiago/Where+to+Go (1904 words)

	The battle of San Juan Hill
		The story of the siege of Santiago by the regulars and volunteers is one of heroic endurance of dangers more terrible than the ordinary perils of battle.
		On arriving off Santiago, with Admiral Sampson, I went down the coast about twenty miles, and saw General Garcia, and asked him his opinion of the country, what his force was, and whether he was disposed to assist.
		I think that was the universal feeling, but the loss of Santiago and of those 24,000 men -- 23,376, to be accurate -- so dispirited the enemy that within a week the proposition of Spain to close the war was made, and, happily, the war was ended.
	www.publicbookshelf.com /public_html/The_Great_Republic_By_the_Master_Historians_Vol_IV/thebattle_bg.html (3078 words)

	The Santiago Campaign of 1898 — www.greenwood.com
		In The Santiago Campaign of 1898: A Soldier's View of the Spanish-American War, A.B. Feurer has collected soldiers' letter and re-created that campaign from the vantage point of the men who fought in it.
		Description: This story is an account of the Santiago, Cuba, land campaign of the Spanish-American War, as conducted by General William R. Shafter's Fifth Army Corps.
		Furthermore, the attack on the outer defenses of Santiago was totally mismanaged by William Shafter, the American General in command, and his incompetent staff.
	www.greenwood.com /catalog/C4479.aspx?print=1 (417 words)

	Cuba - Search View - MSN Encarta
		Membership in the Young Communist League or the Cuban Communist Party is an important determinant of student enrollment in one of the three universities and the dozens of polytechnic schools.
		The Emilio Bacardi Moreau Museum of natural history and art in Santiago de Cuba displays the natural wildlife and plants of the island and is located in an old rum factory.
		In Cuba, the war consisted of a naval blockade of Havana’s harbor and an attack and siege of Santiago de Cuba in the east.
	encarta.msn.com /text_761569844__1/Cuba.html (19379 words)

	Personal accounts of war: The Spanish American war
		General Lawton was ordered to take Caney on the first day, and then proceed with the rest to Santiago, but he found it a tougher job than expected, and only got through with artillery by four in afternoon.
		Santiago had no defences, but they ran up some earthworks, and made trenches after the fleet began to blockade and the United States army to besiege them.
		Ramsden's exposure and heroic labors throughout the siege of Santiago had brought upon him grew gradually worse.
	www.publicbookshelf.com /public_html/The_Great_Republic_By_the_Master_Historians_Vol_IV/personala_bi.html (2333 words)

	Rough Riders
		The plan was to march along the jungle roads to the northwest, and lay siege to the city of Santiago.
		Linares had only about 4500 men on the eastern side of Santiago, and these were spread out defending in a broad semi-circle along the heights overlooking the city.
		The Manzanillo column reinforced Santiago, and any thought of storming the defenses of the city were quickly abandoned.
	members.tripod.com /SimulationsWorkshop/rough.html (1640 words)

	The Gatlings at Santiago - Appendix I (by John H. Parker)
		Despite the fierce glare of a Southern sun and rains that fell in torrents, you valiantly withstood his attempts to drive you from the position your valor had won, holding in your vise-like grip the army opposed to you.
		After seventeen days of battle and siege, you were rewarded by the surrender of nearly 24,000 prisoners, 12,000 being those in your immediate front, the others scattered in the various towns of eastern Cuba, freeing completely the eastern part of the island from Spanish troops.
		All who have participated in the campaign, battle, and siege of Santiago de Cuba will recall with pride the grand deeds accomplished, and will hold one another dear for having shared great suffering, hardships, and triumphs together.
	www.authorama.com /gatlings-at-santiago-14.html (524 words)

	The Gatlings at Santiago - by John H. Parker [Authorama]
		The discussion filed with the invention pointed out, for the first time, the correct tactical employment of the weapon, and staked the military reputation and ability of the author and inventor on the correctness of his views.
		The squadron reached Santiago de Cuba, and after tacking about for several days, either for the purpose of deceiving the enemy, or of waiting a decision as to the landing-place, finally approached Baiquiri, which had been selected for the landing.
		After a great deal of gesticulation, much excited talk between the general and members of his staff, and numerous messengers had been dispatched hither and thither upon this important and very difficult business, a Cuban officer was sent with instructions to furnish a guide who could conduct the detachment to Gen.
	www.authorama.com /book/gatlings-at-santiago.html (19339 words)

	9th U.S.
		Much to the chagrin of the men, who thought they would be among the first to land, the SANTIAGO was ordered to take part in a diversionary movement toward Santiago.
		The Ninth had their baptism under fire when the vessel passed close to the entrance to Santiago harbor and a gun in the fortifications opened fire, sending two shells toward the vessel.
		During the Battle of San Juan Hill, and the ensuing siege of Santiago, the Ninth U.S. Infantry lost one officer and 4 enlisted men killed and 27 enlisted men wounded.
	www.spanamwar.com /9thusinfantry.htm (1997 words)

	Spanish-American War Logistics - ALOG
		Miles wanted to delay an invasion of Cuba until fall, when the yellow fever season would be over and the recruits would be better trained; the Navy wanted an immediate invasion, to beat the hurricane season, and their view prevailed with the President.
		The siege of Santiago involved more negotiation over surrender terms than bombardment, particularly after Cervera's fleet attempted to fight its way out of Santiago harbor and was destroyed by Sampson's squadron on 3 July.
		The Puerto Rico campaign was launched after the surrender of Santiago in hopes of forcing Spain to sue for peace and thereby eliminate the need for a campaign against Havana.
	www.almc.army.mil /alog/issues/JulAug98/MS305.htm (4662 words)

	Schulers Books (The Gatlings at Santiago - 1/31)
		To the Enlisted Members of the Detachment, Who, by Their Devotion, Courage and Endurance, Made Its Success Possible, this Volume is Dedicated as a Token of Esteem by the Author.
		Our artillery, using fl powder, had not been able to stand within range of the Spanish rifles, but it was perfectly evident that the Gatlings were troubled by no such consideration, for they were advancing all the while.
		CHAPTER I. The history of the Gatling Gun Detachment, Fifth Army Corps, is to a certain extent the history of the Santiago campaign.
	www.schulers.com /books/jo/g/The_Gatlings_at_Santiago (973 words)

	The Third Field Artillery Battalion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The 5th Regiment was the first artillery regiment to be composed entirely of field batteries.
		Following the cessation of the Seminole War it was ordered to Fort Adams, Rhode Island in 1839, where it remained until 1847.
		At San Juan Hill, the battery commander was wounded, leaving command to Lieutenant Ernest Hinds (later Chief of Artillery, A. After its return to the States in 1901, the battery was redesignated as the 4th Field Battery of United States Artillery.
	www.mindspring.com /~sgasque/army/3rdFABat.htm (6006 words)

	www.myspace.com/siegemusic
		But where things looked their worst, Siege miraculously recovered, and underwent extensive physical therapy as a child.
		Of his life and death experience he says: "God gave me a second chance, and wants me to make the best of it." Adding to his individuality, Siege is a Haitian/Puerto Rican/Irishman with one goal in mind: prove anyone wrong who believes he's not rap game material.
		At the young age of nine, Siege picked up the craft of emceeing after hearing such influential albums as Biggie's "Ready to Die", The Fugees' "The Score", and Busta Rhymes' "The Coming".
	www.myspace.com /siegemusic (1144 words)

	Spanish American War Bibliography
		Santiago de Cuba: Universidad de Oriente, Departmento de Extensión y Relatiónes Cultures, [1960].
		Captain Concas was the commanding officer of the armored cruiser Infanta Maria Teresa and chief of staff of the squadron during the naval Battle of Santiago de Cuba.
		The Santiago Campaign: Reminiscences of the Operations for the Capture of Santiago de Cuba in the Spanish American War, June and July 1898.
	www.history.navy.mil /biblio/biblio7/biblio7d.htm (5088 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Have Your Say \| Russian siege footage: Your reaction
		Beslan is preparing to bury more of the at least 326 people who died on the last day of the siege.
		There is no stronger feeling of hate and revenge than the anger of a mother and father who lost their child in such an event and this anger will grow and spread away.
		A tragic end to the siege, but it is inevitable, since the rebels didn't allow food and water into the school.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/talking_point/3624494.stm (8318 words)

	Prologue - Prologue: Selected Articles
		With the help of naval gunfire and a small force of Cuban revolutionaries under the command of Gen. Calixto Garcia, the three hundred Spanish troops in the area of Daiquiri were forced to withdraw on June 22.
		Lawton was then to move on to Santiago with Kent and Wheeler approaching to his left.
		The Battle of Santiago began early in the morning of July 1 with Lawton attacking El Caney, but his force of sixty-six hundred men met heavy resistance from the five hundred Spaniards garrisoned at the village.
	www.archives.gov /publications/prologue/1998/spring/roosevelt-and-medal-of-honor-2.html?template=print (1740 words)

	Huber Matos
		In March 1958 he brought a planeload of weapons to Castro in the Sierra Maestra, and fought at his side until the final victory, rising to the rank of Major.
		"During the siege of Santiago," wrote Franqui, "it was he, with only about one hundred men, who kept Batista's army from entering and leaving the city."
		When the rebels took over Cuba's government on January 1 1959, Matos was put in charge of the military in Camagüey Province, and seemed to be an important player in the Cuban Revolution.
	www.historyofcuba.com /history/havana/HMatos.htm (985 words)

	Fighting A New Enemy - Disease and the Spanish American War
		Throughout the three-week siege to take Santiago, General Shafter had watched his fighting force slowly dwindle away through an attrition caused, not so much by enemy bullets or fierce battles, but by a new enemy.
		His soldiers might well have encamped around the city of Santiago to cut off the enemy from any resupply, even if it took months to "starve out its defenders", were it not for the tropical diseases that were decimating his ranks.
		Ten days later when these same soldiers attacked the heights over Santiago, many were already suffering from the early stages of disease, and in the days of trench warfare that followed, the malady spread rapidly.
	www.homeofheroes.com /wallofhonor/spanish_am/15_closing.html (3525 words)

	Santiago de Compostela's Catholic Devotions: San Migeul del Milagro
		Santiago de Compostela's Catholic Devotions: San Migeul del Milagro
		Here he retreated, tortured by forces perceived only in his pain, similar to the time he was bedridden near death.
		In no condition to move, with his mind and senses under siege, Saint Michael appeared a third time to a very humbled Diego Lázaro.
	www.starharbor.com /santiago/milagro.html (4022 words)

	Carl Lovelace
		Carl Lovelace was a Private in Troop D of the First United States Volunteer Cavalry, also known as Theodore Roosevelt's "Rough Riders." He participated in the battle at La Guasimas on June 24, 1898, Kettle and San Juan Hills on July 1, 1898 and the siege of Santiago.
		On July 17, after a period of negotiation, bombardment, and the destruction of the Spanish Fleet at the naval Battle at Santiago, the Spanish Santiago garrison surrendered.
		During the time of the siege, there were numerous outbreaks of disease, and Carl is reported as being sick in the line of duty from the 22nd to 24th of July.
	www.spanamwar.com /rrlovelace.html (2159 words)

	Battles of the Spanish-American War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		July 1 - Battles of the Santiago Heights: El Caney (I) and San Juan Hill (A); fierce fighting for capital of Santiago Province in Cuba
		July 3 - Siege of Santiago begins; Battle of Santiago de Cuba; Cervera's squadron destroyed (A) July 10- Santiago, Cuba bombarded by US Navy
		July 17- Spanish garrison of Santiago surrenders after weeks of siege
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battles_of_the_Spanish-American_War (461 words)

	Table of contents for Library of Congress control number 80002314 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Beginnings of the Campaign at Santiago de Cuba 194 Spanih Preparations at Santiago de Cuba, 196 Arrival at Santiago de Cuba, 203 Cuban-American Relations, 208 Landing at Daiquiri, 212 Skirmish at Las Gudsimas, 217 10.
		The Sea Battle of Santiago de Cuba 257 Cervera's Preparations for a Sortie, 257 The Action of July 3, 261 12.
		The Siege of Santiago de Cuba 286 Early Siege Operations, 289 Negotiations for Capitulation, 299 Capitulation, 311 14.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/toc/fy052/80002314.html (551 words)

	James Regan, Colonel, United States Army
		He was recommended for the brevet of Major for gallantry in action at the battle of San Juan and the siege of Santiago de Cuba, and for a Medal of Honor and brevet of Lieutenant Colonel for coolness, courage and heroic exposure under heavy fire, until severely wounded, at the Battle of Tientsin, China.
		As a Major, he commanded the Regiment en route to and in the Philippines from March 24th to June 29th, 1899, and afterward the Second Battalion in the campaigns in Luzon and China, until twice severely wounded, which necessitated his being sent to the United States.
		Battle of San Juan and siege of Santiago de Cuba.
	www.arlingtoncemetery.net /jregan.htm (807 words)

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