[282] Major-General commanding the army, Report, 1898, p. 149.

[283] Major-General commanding the army, Report, 1898, p. 162.

[284] Major-General commanding the army, Report, 1898, pp. 152, 169, 171, 319, 366, 381. [General Vara el Rey, one of the bravest of the Spanish officers, was the leader in this desperate resistance, and was killed while rallying his men in the village.—Editor.]

[285] Major-General commanding the army, Report, pp. 167, 173.

[286] Messages and Docs., Abridgment, 1898–1899, I, 270.

[287] Sec. of the Navy, Annual Report, 1898, App., pp. 505–602; Long, New Am. Navy, II, 28–42.

[288] Major-General commanding the army, Report, 1898, pp. 138–147, 226–243, 246–266.

[289] Senate Docs., 56 Cong., I Sess., No. 221, 8 vols.

[290] Nation, LXIX, 61.

[291] Proceedings of the Schley Court of Inquiry, House Docs., 57 Cong., I Sess., No. 485.