... THE ARMY AND NAVY GAZETTE, &c. THE AMERICANS IN THE CARIBBEAN. TN the report of the Secretary of the United States Navy, prepared last November, it was remarked that, if the United States had a navy at all, it should be one commensarate with the nation’s ...

... will be an assembly of many squadrons in Caribbean waters. It is expected that the Battleship, Caribbean, and Coast Squadrons will assemble in Hampton Roads about December 1, after which the Battleship and Caribbean Squadrons will leave for Culebra, and ...

... Madden, Lieut.-Col. W. C. D. Esdaile, Surg.-Capt. Green. The United States North Atlantic Squadron was to sail for the Caribbean Sea to-day. Messrs. Spink and Son of Piccadilly have presented to the Lords of the Admiralty, on behalf of Greenwich Hospital ...

... of the Caribbean Sea, just as Malta and Gibraltar became English fortresses commanding the Mediterranean by accident or providential disposition. Why this importance of Jamaica ? Because it is in the Caribbean Sea ? And why should the Caribbean Sea give ...

... navigating branch, and medical officers. In the winter it is intended to unite the largest American fleet for manoeuvres in the Caribbean which has ever been brought together. The North Atlantic Squadron and that of the South Atlantic will be amalgamated, and ...

... demonstrations on the coast in order to scatter the ships, and then the hostile commander, with three or four ships in the Caribbean, might block or command tbe canal. An exponent of tbo other view is strangely enough a military officer, Colonel Peter C ...

... yield to his tempting, so will many readers who test the charm of his happy descriptions. His itinerary carried him from the Caribbean to the Rockies, and from the Rockies to the St. Lawrence, and though a slave to time he could diverge but little from the ...

... necessarily tako tho place reviews of tho books.l West Indian Tales ok Old (Duckworth). When tho Panama Canal finished tho Caribbean Sea will become one of tho principal ocean highways of tho world ; so tho author of this work, Algernon K. Asptnall, considers ...

... is that command of the sea is the only logical and real defence, and that the key of the situation will be found in the Caribbean Sea. Ships, not forts mobility of movement, not immobility, mus AXXUVX ~ fch like matters, st be left to the s of controlling ...

... fired. There are abundant reasons for watching the course of hostilities with the keenest interest. The balance of power the Caribbean Sea will in all probability be changed. The status of Spain, which has long held a valuable neutral position among the Powers ...

... The Political Situation The appearance of the squadron of Admiral Cervera in the Caribbean has placed the operations of the war in what may be described as a normal channel. The fleets are at least confronted, and Admiral Sampson is no longer engaged ...

... either the Strategic Board or Sampson can be held responsible because the latter permitted the Spanish commander to reach the Caribbean Sea and to slip into Santiago without being reported. It is to be noted that the Secretary of the United States Navy has ...