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Comments of Rear-Admiral Plüddemann, German Navy, on the main features of the War with Spain.
This able analysis of the main features of the Spanish-American war by M. Plüddemann, Rear-Admiral, German navy, presents in a comprehensive form many of the technical deductions of the late war. He comments on the high quality and endurance of our navy ordnance and on the defective results from th...
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| Language: | English German |
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Washington, DC :
United States Government Printing Office,
1899.
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| Series: | Information from abroad
War Notes ; II. |
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This able analysis of the main features of the Spanish-American war by M. Plüddemann, Rear-Admiral, German navy, presents in a comprehensive form many of the technical deductions of the late war. He comments on the high quality and endurance of our navy ordnance and on the defective results from the navy fuse now in use. As regards the question of the importance of the Navy controlling the transport service, his reference to the landing of the army at Daiquiri is instructive. Referring to the want of control and discipline on board the merchant steamers chartered as transports for service under the Quartermaster's Department of the Army--that control and discipline at sea which foreign military authorities have long since by experience recognized can only be obtained through the navy--he states: Under these circumstances it is not strange that the landing of the provisions, guns, and ammunition, and the entire equipment, all of which were so much needed in this locality, which offered no resources, was effected with such slowness that the troops were reduced from the outset to the meager rations which each man carried with him. Richardson Clover, Chief Intelligence Officer. December 21, 1898. |
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Translated from the Marine-Rundschau, November, 1898. "December, 1898." |
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18 pages ; 23 cm. |