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well, and all alike are entitled to share in the honor 

 of the day. 



Mr. Bonsai out-Spaniards the Spaniards them- 

 selves as regards both their numbers and their loss. 

 These points are discussed elsewhere. He develops 

 for the Spanish side, to account for their retreat, 

 a wholly new explanation viz., that they retreated 

 because they saw reinforcements arriving for the 

 Americans. The Spaniards themselves make no 

 such claim. Lieutenant Tejeiro asserts that they 

 retreated because news had come of an (wholly 

 mythical) American advance on Morro Castle. 

 The Spanish official report simply says that the 

 Americans were repulsed; which is about as ac- 

 curate a statement as the other two. All three ex- 

 planations, those by General Rubin, by Lieutenant 

 Tejeiro, and by Mr. Bonsai alike, are precisely on 

 a par with the first Spanish official report of the 

 battle of Manila Bay, in which Admiral Dewey was 

 described as having been repulsed and forced to 

 retire. 



There are one or two minor mistakes made by 

 Mr. Bonsai. He states that on the roster of the 

 officers of the Rough Riders there were ten West 

 Pointers. There were three, one of whom resigned. 

 Only two were in the fighting. He also states 

 that after Las Guasimas Brigadier-General Young 

 was made a Major-General and Colonel Wood a 

 Brigadier-General, while the commanding officers 

 of the First and Tenth Cavalry were ignored in this 



