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Title: Notes of a War Correspondent

Author: Richard Harding Davis

Release Date: January 18, 2008 [eBook #3050]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII)

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Transcribed from the 1911 Harper and Brothers edition by David Price,
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NOTES OF A WAR CORRESPONDENT

BY
RICHARD HARDING DAVIS

ILLUSTRATED

CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
NEW YORK::::::::::::::::::::::::1911

COPYRIGHT, 1897, BY
HARPER & BROTHERS

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COPYRIGHT, 1898, 1900, 1910, BY
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

[Picture: At the front in Manchuria]

Contents:

The Cuban-Spanish War
The Death of Rodriguez
The Greek-Turkish War
The Battle of Velestinos
The Spanish-American War
I. The Rough Riders at Guasimas
II. The Battle of San Juan Hill
III. The Taking of Coamo
IV. The Passing of San Juan Hill
The South African War
I. With Buller's Column
II. The Relief of Ladysmith
III. The Night Before the Battle
The Japanese-Russian War
Battles I did not see
A War Correspondent's Kit

THE CUBAN-SPANISH WAR: THE DEATH OF RODRIGUEZ {1}

Adolfo Rodriguez was the only son of a Cuban farmer, who lived nine miles
outside of Santa Clara, beyond the hills that surround that city to the
north.

When the revolution in Cuba broke out young Rodriguez joined the
insurgents, leaving his father and mother and two sisters at the farm.
He was taken, in December of 1896, by a force of the Guardia Civile, the
corps d'elite of the Spanish army, and defended himself when they tried
to capture him, wounding three of them with his machete.

He was tried by a military court for bearing arms against the government,
and