Deseret Evening News | 1898-04-18 | Page 4 | Capture of Havana

CUTIIIF nf HAVANA The prospect that Havana may soon be tho scene of military operations re calls former expeditions age Inst that city Havana was founded In 151 1 15 Twentythree yearn later It was reduced re-duced to ashes by a French privateer and It had hardly risen from the ruins before It was again utterly destroyed by a Trench attack In ITOJ the English under Admiral Pocock and the duke of Allwrmarle captured the city but restored re-stored It to the Spaniards the following year This expedition consisted ot About 200 j vessels 1 nnd an army of 14000 men against n Spanish lore of 27000 Since then the city has been well fortified but the efficiency of the destructive en rinem oC war have also beeome to much greater that the capture of the city should not be as much of an undertaking undertak-ing as It was In those early days