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service. There was little excuse for the appointment of General
no excuse for keeping at the head of the army administration
Secretary of war.html">war.html">War was unable to work.
The navy did not escapecontroversy. In fact, a war fought under
unskilled in military affairs could not fail to supply a daily
between Sampson and Schley, however, grew out of incompatible
quarrelsome public. Captain Sampson was chosen to command, and
Schley, a genial and open-hearted man, too much given to impulse,
was not gracious in his treatment of the Commodore, and ill
their good conduct, Secretary Long by recommending that Sampson
positions as they had been before the war. This recommendation,
vitality the controversy ever had then disappeared, though it
historians.
CHAPTER XII. The Close Of The War
While the American people were concentrating their attention upon
the distant islands of the Pacific was rapidly becoming acute.
nerve, in Manila Harbor, in the midst of uncertain neutrals. A
his assistance from the one side, while a superiorSpanish fleet
Admiral Camara had reached Port Said, but he was not entirely
condition which was characteristic of the Spanish Navy. The
to coal, and the American consul had with foresight bought up
and take aboard later from colliers. Nevertheless the fleet
gave orders on the 29th of June for a squadron under Commodore
back.
The alarm which had previously been created on the American coast
Americans themselves might win one of those.
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