ant Hobson and six men, who were captured and
held as prisoners until exchanged a month later.
A land force was immediately sent to co-operate
with the navy at Santiago. A body of six hundred
marines had landed at Caimanera on Guantanamo
Bay, June 10th, and had a sharp skirmish to hold
the p la c e ; and on the 22d, the Fifth Arm y Corps
of about 12,000 men arrived from Tampa, under
command of Major-General W. R. Shafter, landing
at Siboney and Daiquiri east of Santiago. In
making the advance up the heights for the attack
on the city, a part of the force encountered the
enemy at Sevilla, or “ Las Guasimas,” on the 24th
of June, and had a fierce and deadly struggle in
breaking the way for the army over a narrow trail.
On July 1st and 2d, there was hard fighting in the
taking of E l Caney and San Juan, and the American
loss was two hundred and thirty-one killed and
1364 wounded, but the victory over the Spaniards
was complete.
On the 3d of July, Admiral Ce.vera, acting under
orders from Captain-General Blanco, made a dash
out of Santiago Bay with his fleet and attempted to
escape along the coast to the west. There was a
terrible running battle, the American cruiser Brooklyn
and the battle-ships Iowa, Indiana, Oregon, and
Texas joining in the attack and destroying or driving
ashore all the Spanish cruisers, with dreadful
destruction of life and the capture of all the surviving
officers and crews. A demand was then immediately
made upon the commander of the Spanish
land forces, General Toral, for the surrender of the
city of Santiago and the adjoining territory, and
after considerable parley and negotiating the demand
was complied with, and on the 17th of July the
United States flag was raised on the government
building. Brigadier-General Leonard Wood was
put in command as military governor.
In the peace protocol already referred to, it was
agreed that “ Spain will renounce all claim to all
sovereignty over, and all her rights over the island
of Cuba,” and that ‘ ‘ Spain will immediately evacuate
Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the other islands under
Spanish sovereignty in the A n tille s .” Three commissioners
were to be appointed b y each party to
the agreement to settle the details of the evacuation.
There were about 1 18,000 troops to be transported
to Spain, and the commissioners met in
Havana early in October to direct the manner of
their removal, with the expectation that the process
would be completed by the end of the year. Plans
were adopted for organising an army of occupation
during the autumn, which was to be landed upon
the island as the Spanish troops departed. This
army was to be under the command of General
John R. Brooke, as military governor of Cuba, and
there was to be a department commander in each
province. General Fitzhugh Lee, the last consul-
general at Havana, was to have command of the
troops in Havana province, and General William
Ludlow was made military governor of the city.
A n assembly of Cuban deputies, consisting of
eight delegates from each of the six corps of the
Cuban army, representing also the six provinces of