The Surrender of Santiago
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By Frank Norris 4 Nov, 2020
The headquarters were in an abandoned country seat, a little six-roomed villa, all on one floor, called the Hacienda San Pablo. To the left of us along the crest of hills, in a mighty crescent that reached almost to the sea, lay the army, panting fro ... Read more
The headquarters were in an abandoned country seat, a little six-roomed villa, all on one floor, called the Hacienda San Pablo. To the left of us along the crest of hills, in a mighty crescent that reached almost to the sea, lay the army, panting from the effort of the first, second and third days of the month, resting on its arms, its eyes to its sights, Maxim, Hotchkiss and Krag-Jorgenson held ready, alert, watchful, straining in the leash, waiting the expiration of the last truce that had now been on for twenty-four hours. Less
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Benjamin Franklin "Frank" Norris Jr. (March 5, 1870 – Oct 25, 1902) was an American journalist and a novelist during the Progressive Era, whose fiction was predominantly in the naturalist genre. His...
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