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DISPATCHES
Military news and events from around the globe, including a haul of lost photos, the sale
and return of wartime love letters, plus a new theory on the decline of the Roman Empire
RARE PHOTOGRAPHS OF SPANISH-
AMERICAN WAR COME TO LIGHT
neglected archive has revealed a hoard by archivists Dave Colamaria and Jon Raleigh and USS Boston (both of which took
of photographs of the US Navy taken Roscoe. The pictures, which were individually part in the Battle of Manila), US sailors, crews
during the Spanish-American War. wrapped in tissue paper, dated and captioned, and apprentice boys, as well as the Spanish
During preparations for a major had been taken by Douglas White, a war Fleet. The collection will now be moved into
A renovation at the Naval History and correspondent for the San Francisco Examiner new archival enclosures and display units.
Heritage Command in Washington DC, newspaper during the conflict. The Spanish-American War was the result
a box containing around 150 original Dating from 1898 – when the war started of American intervention in the Cuban War
glass-plate photographs was uncovered – the pictures capture vessels such as USS of Independence.
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