Capture Of El Caney
Jfort Antonio, Jamaica, July s. - Cieneral Lawton in his report after the assault upon and capture of El Caney by hls divisiĆ³n during the first day's flghting, says: "It may not be out of place to cali attention to this peculiar feature of the battle. It was fought against an enemy fortifled and entrenched within a compact town of stone and concrete houses, some with walls scveral f:et thick, and supported by a number of covered solid stone forts, and the enemy continued to resist until nearly every man was killed or wounded with a seemingly desperate resolution." Captain Carbaugh, adjutant general, says: "The action ot the American troops at El Caney will always have a place in hlstory as an illustration of a successful assault upon a fortifled town by foot soldiers."
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