Dewey v. United States
United States Court of Claims
On the Proofs. The Reporters’ statement of tbe case: Tbe following are tbe facts of tbe case as found by tbe court: I. On tbe 1st day of May, 1898, an engagement took place between tbe following vessels of tbe United States Navy: Olympia, Baltimore, Boston, Raleigb, Concord, Petrél, Mc-Culloch, Nanshan, and Zafiro, and tbe following vessels of war belonging to tbe King of Spain, supported by shore batteries, submarine mines, and torpedoes, tbe United States and tbe Kingdom…
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On the Proofs. The Reporters’ statement of tbe case: Tbe following are tbe facts of tbe case as found by tbe court: I. On tbe 1st day of May, 1898, an engagement took place between tbe following vessels of tbe United States Navy: Olympia, Baltimore, Boston, Raleigb, Concord, Petrél, Mc-Culloch, Nanshan, and Zafiro, and tbe following vessels of war belonging to tbe King of Spain, supported by shore batteries, submarine mines, and torpedoes, tbe United States and tbe Kingdom of Spain being then at war: Reina Cristina, Castilla, Don Juan de Ulloa, General Lezo, Marques del Duero, Argos, Yelasco,…
1Opinion of the CourtWeldoN, J.
On the 1st day of May, 1898, the “United States naval force on Asiatic Station,” under the command of Commodore George Dewey, in the prosecution of the war declared by the United States on the 25th day of April, 1898 (as dating from *187tbo 21st of April, 1898), against the Kingdom of Spain, encountered the Spanish squadron in the waters of Manila Bay off the coast of the island of Luzon, and in an engagement lasting from 5.15 a. m. until 12.30 p. m. the United States forces succeeded in destroying and capturing the whole of the Spanish fleet and the achievement of a victory having scarcely a…
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