Word: cervera
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shipping. From the Bahamas, Jamaica and Martinique, Civil War blockade runners made their night-bound, fog-shrouded dashes to Charleston and Wilmington. And in 1898, the Caribbean was invaded by an inept Spanish Fleet. It had the U. S. Atlantic seaboard in a dither of fright until old Admiral Cervera holed up in Santiago, Cuba, finally came out to have his ships shot down like ducks in a shooting gallery by a U. S. Fleet which was short on strategic reconnaissance, long on guns...
...between Cuba and Haiti, lies the Caribbean's central and most used sea gate: the deep, so-mile-wide Windward Passage. Commanding the passage is the U. S. Navy's leased station on Cuba's Guantanamo Bay, only a few miles from the rusting hulls of Cervera's armada...
Died. Dr. William Wallace Whitelock, 70, newspaperman, author, educator, Spanish-American war hero (he headed a party that rescued Admiral Cervera from the wrecked Spanish flagship Maria Tere a); after a brief illness; in Manhattan...