Identifier: grandestcenturyi00nort (find matches)
Title: Grandest century in the world's history; containing a full and graphic account of the marvelous achievements of one hundred years, including great battles and conquests; the rise and fall of nations; wonderful growth and progress of the United States ... etc., etc
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Northrop, Henry Davenport, 1836-1909
Subjects: Nineteenth century
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa., National publishing co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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n Skyward. At this juncture the Don Juan deAustria became a centre of interest.She had been in the very front of battleand received, perhaps, more of the Amer-ican shots than any other ship. Ad-miral Montojo, on the burning Isla deCuba, threw up his arms with a gestureof despair as a heavy roar came fromthe Don Juan de Austria and part ofher deck flew up in the air, taking withit scores of dead, dying and mangled.A shot had penetrated one of her maga-zines. She was ruined and sinking, buther crew refused to leave her. Weeping,cursing, praying and firing madly andblindly they went down with her, andas the Don Juan de Austria went downthe Castilla burst into flames. The remainder of the Spanish fleetnow turned and fled down the long,narrow inlet behind Cavite. Several ofthe gun-boats were run ashore, othersfled up a small creek and were groundedthere. The guns of Cavite kept onthundering, and the Americans, press-ing their advantage no further, drew off.As they steamed away toward their
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