Word: fronteras
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Espana!" An hour later Seville was in General Sanjurjo's hands. Arrested and clapped into the military barracks were Governor Valera Valverde, the mayor, the chief of police and seven councilmen. Lieut.-Colonel Marquis de Sauceda was named Governor of Seville. From Algeciras and from Jerez de la Frontera, where all Spain's sherry is made, came mutinying troops to join the rebels. At Cartagena a naval garrison mutinied. In Granada and Malaga revolutionary fervor ran high. General Sanjurjo cut all telegraph & telephone wires north of Seville. The general, who had escorted Queen Victoria from Spain after last...
...which Professor Kennelly is regarded as an authority. Before he became the principal electrical assistant to Edison. Professor Kennelly was chief electrician of a cable repairing steamer and senior ship's electrician of the Eastern Telegraph Cable Company. He was the engineer in charge of laying the Vera Cruz-Frontera-Compeche cables for the Mexican government...
...rebel leader Adolfo de la Huerta was reported en route to the U. S., drowned at sea, assassinated, still in Mexico, and in full command of rebel forces at the port of Frontera on the Yucatan Peninsula...
...Federal gunboat Bravo (Hurrah !) arrived at Puerto Mexico, en route to Frontera, which was reported to be held by a small rebel force, with or without de la Huerta. "The Bravo will attack Frontera. Then, as Campeche has surrendered, the Federal forces will make a big drive against the State of Tabasco...
...than to warn merchant vessels that they enter the port at their own risk. This lifting of the blockade occurred about the time that the U. S. S. Richmond arrived on the scene. ¶ The Rebels gave notice that they were about to mine the ports of Vera Cruz, Frontera and Puerto Mexico. The U. S. State Department protested. The cruiser Omaha and six destroyers arrived on the scene. The Rebels abandoned their mine laying scheme. ¶ The Rebels were reinforced by 1,500 Obregonistas, who deserted from the Federal forces. They were all armed with weapons and ammunitions purchased...