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Show aSK'IC OF DISASTER! (' hKH FELIPE. WHERE 100 OLONISTS FELL '. ( h., u ,., '"tT, Th. ,,. K), f "'Iw t,ionM r.r th. trtnt.h ( l" f.n.l m f.rly Am.rlc n hiirr. ich i not (riifrally known. h, KHI.4 f th prwnl dl-5nce dl-5nce 1 clnmll anil th poul-ttr poul-ttr ni, Biiiry fr., (rom thl, cinlry b. orcl.rc.1 thrre. It or. ""'" " mJtlo ""k .. F'"'"- "hlfh w"h i, chu. n tllrr. an(1 balun, nl)(b pr Uk,x, 0( tn, l)r,,lrMqlle cUy ,lrb du, l, , ,bl Mt of m -"'.'IT" tn,t HP.n lil.ooo.ooo I ' X"'" . At that tlrn Colombia ft tha territory which h Ttr, f" a part of tha ilt ' a J"'l0 t h Jw world. itfV.dTM rlchra airltrd lha anvy I ii cuinnitj of Eniltnd. tha lattr Irtlng a fli ltfor rolonlal aipanaloa In hith America and. with that ronton .enquired, i union of North and South karrlca to U poul Ida. I tn 173 Qrcat Britain dr-rUred war in Spain. Slmull.no.ml Admiral arnon craawl the Atlantlr with a Imi of all r.urli and capturrd t tie mall townot Porto Hello, on tha lmu-mua lmu-mua of Pnuma. Tha following winter ba waa joltwd b. a fleet of 120 vaanela. rarrylm HMO ullora and 12.000 land troopa. At Jaroalra Ihla force waa Jolnad by lug colonial troopa, from MaeaachuaMU. Ithode liland. Connec-tlcut. Connec-tlcut. New Tori. New Jeraey, I'enmiyl-anla. I'enmiyl-anla. Mnrjlitd. Virginia and North Carolina, thl Vlrglnlana being led by Capt Lwrmt Waahlnxton. half brollier of Oeorge. Cartagena waa aa-lected aa-lected aa lb, point of a concoiilraled attack. Th, lorlreaa of lloca Chlra, at tha entrant, to the harbor, waa apeed-lly apeed-lly tnken. Onca Inilda the harbor thera waa a delay of three duya before any movo wu marie, but It waa Anally determined lo lead a night nttark on the caatla ol Bin Felipe, 1,(00 Americana, Ameri-cana, under On. Wentwnrth, being aa- lacted for U, auault, though lha actual act-ual atornilni party conilated of 1,200 among then Lawrence Wanhlhgton. Ot thla ttrrltite alega ot Ban Felipe. LAWIIENCK WA81I1NOT0N. lha reut and ahattored walla of tha old krtraaa, never alnca repaired, bear inipla tcillmony today. CefUinly iBera waa bravery auough ahown by 50 baalngera to hara won a hundred laltlaa; but mlamanageincnt on tba art of the leadora aud treachery on iia part of tba auldea brought tba at- k! lo I fatal couclualon for our MOIia. Tba latter, with tha aama ar-nt ar-nt herolim that characterlaad their fadndanta at Ban Juan 11111, threw nliaolvea upon tha moat Inacceaalbla rl of tha turtrena. brought thither by wnr faltlileaa guldea. Out Yen he en-' en-' 'gj. aol firsvary waa unavailing beret be-ret Irre'lerrllila odda that confronted ria. Aa originally planned, tha attic' at-tic' waa to bava bean a nocturnal ona. Mar no ahleld aava that of darknaaa aid tha preclpltoua walla of tba fort-M fort-M lie carried, but by tha time the an reached tha foot of Ban Felipe tha tl lory of a tropical aun buret upon tHU and, to add tha laat touch to tHri bad fortune It waa found that tUrr lecnllng laddera ware too abort 'ft Americana atood their ground un-di un-di gulling fire, every Bpaniao can-itf can-itf and musket telling on them, for erral houra, and did not retreat un-tl"4 un-tl"4 loy dead or wounded at tha foot oH walla, tile dltaater at Ban Felipe virtually br the backbone of the Vernon ei-petU.n. ei-petU.n. To the defeat ot the Amerl-caicOlonlata Amerl-caicOlonlata In tha alege of the fort-ret fort-ret quickly added the acourge of fee- In leaa than two daya more tban hit 0ia army waa atrlcken with thla terr of the tropica. Thua crippled nB vnnqulahed, the fleet returned to jaiitia. where, of tboae who'orlgln- II u,d In all tha glory of an aa-lu-i conqueat, only 1,000 aurvlvad to re.'' 'balr homea. lie fart that a half brother of Oen. Oe-ie Vfaahlngton participated In the aalt lenda additional Intereat there's there-'s " the rauae of the untimely de f Uwrence Waahlngton. After hi, return home he never tecovered fr h effacta ot ihe fever with wb'n na auttared while with Vernon ani" 7M died at the age of 1.. Be-tw Be-tw him and George Waahlngton thf a cloae attachment. Iw-ref Iw-ref l4 many of hi. younger broth-er-,-tmraAterl.tlcB and would undoubt-edl!ve undoubt-edl!ve achieved fume In the revolution revolu-tion 'truguio. |
