WHEN SANTIAGO FELL
OR
THE WAR ADVENTURES OF
TWO CHUMS
BY
CAPTAIN RALPH BONEHILL
AUTHOR OF “A SAILOR BOY WITH DEWEY,” “OFF FOR HAWAII,”
“GUN AND SLED,” “LEO, THE CIRCUS BOY,”
“RIVAL BICYCLISTS,” ETC.
CHATTERTON-PECK COMPANY
NEW YORK, N. Y.
BY THE SAME AUTHOR
WITH CUSTER IN THE BLACK HILLS;
Or, A Young Scout among the Indians.
BOYS OF THE FORT;
Or, A Young Captain’s Pluck.
THE YOUNG BANDMASTER;
Or, Concert Stage and Battlefield.
WHEN SANTIAGO FELL;
Or, The War Adventures of Two Chums.
A SAILOR BOY WITH DEWEY;
Or, Afloat in the Philippines.
OFF FOR HAWAII;
Or, The Mystery of a Great Volcano.
12mo, finely illustrated and bound in cloth.
Price, per volume, 60 cents.
NEW YORK
CHATTERTON-PECK COMPANY
1905
Copyright, 1899, by
THE MERSHON COMPANY
PREFACE.
“When Santiago Fell,” while a completestory in itself, forms the first volume of a line tobe issued under the general title of the “Flag ofFreedom Series” for boys.
My object in writing this story was to presentto American lads a true picture of life in theCuba of to-day, and to show what a fierce strugglewas waged by the Cubans against the iron-handedmastery of Spain previous to the timethat our own glorious United States stepped inand gave to Cuba the precious boon of liberty.The time covered is the last year of the Cuban-SpanishWar and our own campaign leading upto the fall of Santiago.
It may be possible that some readers maythink the adventures of the two chums over-drawn,but this is hardly a fact. The past fewyears have been exceedingly bitter ones to allliving upon Cuban soil, and neither life norproperty has been safe. Even people who werepeaceably inclined were drawn into the struggle[Pg iv]against their will, and the innocent, in manycases, suffered with the guilty.
This war, so barbarously carried on, has nowcome to an end; and, under the guiding hand ofUncle Sam, let us trust that Cuba and her peoplewill speedily take their rightful place among thesmall but well-beloved nations of the world—or,if not this, that she may join the ever-increasingsisterhood of our own States.
Once more thanking