Young Peoples' History of the War with Spain By Prescott Holmes CHAPTER I. THE CAUSE OF THE WAR. On April 21st, 1898, a war began between the United States and Spain. All the other countries of the world felt an interest in it, but did not take any part in it. They were what we call "neutral"-that is, they did not help either side. As soon as the war was proclaimed a great wave of excitement swept through the United States, from shore to shore. Flags were hung out in every city and town; thousands of men offered to serve in ...
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Young Peoples' History of the War with Spain By Prescott Holmes CHAPTER I. THE CAUSE OF THE WAR. On April 21st, 1898, a war began between the United States and Spain. All the other countries of the world felt an interest in it, but did not take any part in it. They were what we call "neutral"-that is, they did not help either side. As soon as the war was proclaimed a great wave of excitement swept through the United States, from shore to shore. Flags were hung out in every city and town; thousands of men offered to serve in the army-volunteers they were called; and many persons offered to help in other ways. The people were not glad that war had begun, but they felt that their country was doing right, and that they ought to support her efforts. Cuban Flag. And what was the cause of the war? Spain, a large country across the Atlantic Ocean, in the southwestern part of Europe, owned some of the islands, called "West Indies," near the United States. Spain had been unjust and cruel to the people living in one of these islands, for many years. Several times the unhappy islanders tried to drive the Spanish from the island, and set up a government of their own, but Spain sent so many soldiers there that they could not get their freedom. They fought bravely, however, but matters kept getting worse and worse, and at last Spain sent a very cruel general to take charge of affairs in the island. His name was Weyler, and he determined to conquer the islanders. After a while he found he could not do it by fighting them, so he sent his soldiers to drive those who were not fighting away from their homes and farms and make them live in or near the large cities. When he had done this, the people had no way to earn money to buy food for themselves and their families, and soon they began to get sick and to die of starvation. The cruel Weyler would not give them anything to eat, and so they died by thousands. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.
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Very good. No dust jacket. Includes illustrations. includes frontispiece. Book Condition: Good-very good. Soiling, rubbing on cover. Slight soiling on front end pages. Clean interior pages.
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Very Good+ No Dustjacket. Book Philadelphia: Henry Altemus Company, 1900. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good+/no dust jacket. Clean decorated binding, from the Altemus Young People's Library". Beige cloth boards with sailor and ship on cover, red lettering; red lettering and decoration on spine. Very tiny spot of wear to one corner at base of spine. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean. Clean endpapers. Small, neat previous owner name and date on back of frontispiece illustration. Illustrated with drawings, maps, photographs. 184 pages.
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Very good. No dust jacket. Attractive book photo shown. Name artfully scribed on inside cover is the only marking. Very light fraying to spine edges. 184 p. Includes illustrations. Eighty-six illustrations
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Good in No jacket. Philadelphia: Henry Altemus Company, 1900. First edition [1900]. Part of the Altermus' Young People's Library. Illustrated history of the Spanish-American War. Pictorial light gray cloth printed in red, dark blue and black, 184 pages plus publisher's ads. Light cover soil and edgewear, good hinges, sound text block, slight lean to binding, lightly age-toned endpapers, pages clean and free from names or other markings. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No. 16mo-over 5¾"-6¾" tall.
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