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The Surrender of Santiago

By Frank Norris

2020-11-04 19:53:16

The headquarters were in an abandoned country seat, a little six-roomed villa, all on one floor, called the Hacienda San Pablo. To the left of us along the crest of hills, in a mighty crescent that reached almost to the sea, lay the army, panting fro ... Read more
The headquarters were in an abandoned country seat, a little six-roomed villa, all on one floor, called the Hacienda San Pablo. To the left of us along the crest of hills, in a mighty crescent that reached almost to the sea, lay the army, panting from the effort of the first, second and third days of the month, resting on its arms, its eyes to its sights, Maxim, Hotchkiss and Krag-Jorgenson held ready, alert, watchful, straining in the leash, waiting the expiration of the last truce that had now been on for twenty-four hours. Less

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File size203.029 KB
Print pages28
PublisherPublic Domain Book
LanguageEnglish
ISBN978-1432697839
Benjamin Franklin "Frank" Norris Jr. (March 5, 1870 – Oct 25, 1902) was an American journalist and a novelist during the Progressive Era, whose fiction was predominantly in the naturalist genre. His...

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