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Identifier: withtouchofelbow00well (find matches)
Title: "With touch of elbow;" or, Death before dishonor; a thrilling narrative of adventure on land and sea
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Wells, James M. (James Monroe), b. 1838
Subjects: United States. Army. Michigan Cavalry Regiment, 8th (1862-1865) United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Personal narratives
Publisher: Philadelphia, Chicago, The J. C. Winston Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
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arly years of its history.Many of the defensive works built by them in that roman-tic period are still standing, and in a fair state of preserva-tion. Apropos of the American Civil War, Angra gained somecelebrity as being the place where the Confederate cruiser,the Alabama—constructed, armed, equipped and mannedby the English—was there delivered to the Confederateauthorities represented by Admiral Semmes and his staffof naval officers. They took possession of the ship atAngra and with it started on her memorable cruise for thedestruction of American commerce on the high seas. Butit is a long road that never turns. The English govern-ment later on was required to pay to the United States thesnug little sum of $15,500,000 for damages wrought toour merchant ships by the Alabama and other cruisers,this being the compensation fixed by what is known asthe Geneva Award. Bidding farewell to Terceira, and once more on boardthe steamer, we head for the port of Horta and the ISLAND OF FAYAL.
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With Touch of Elbow. 347 As a fellow passenger we have a no less distinguishedpersonage than the Commander-in-Chief of the Portu-guese army. In military parlance one often hears of acorporals guard, but a corporal without a guard is notnecessarily a very luminous factor in the organization andcontrol of an army. As compared with the great armiesof the present; the Portuguese would scarcely be able tomuster more than a corporals guard/ and the import-ance attached to the office of its commanding generalwould have the same relative significance. But ourPortuguese commander seemed to entertain a differentestimate of his worth. He was making the rounds of the fortifications on theAzores and Madeira Islands, built centuries ago and gar-risoned by a few soldiers or gendarmes who act as policein the towns and cities where located. On these anti-quated works a few old guns of the Fifteenth Centurypattern are mounted. A military sentinel paces up anddown the parapets; the blare of a bugle is o

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