The pocket guide to the West Indies, British Guiana, British Honduras, the Bermudas, the Spanish Main, and the Panama canal . Dqir. CUBA 387 ineffectual efforts to animate and rally his people. Don Lewisde Velasco, the Governor, who had hitherto defended the fortwith such obstinate bravery, seemed resolved in this extremityto share the same fate with it. He collected an hundred menin an intrenchment he had made round his colours. But seeingthat all his companies were fled from him, or slaughtered abouthim, disdaining to retire or call for quarter, he received a mortalwound, and fell, offering
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The pocket guide to the West Indies, British Guiana, British Honduras, the Bermudas, the Spanish Main, and the Panama canal . Dqir. CUBA 387 ineffectual efforts to animate and rally his people. Don Lewisde Velasco, the Governor, who had hitherto defended the fortwith such obstinate bravery, seemed resolved in this extremityto share the same fate with it. He collected an hundred menin an intrenchment he had made round his colours. But seeingthat all his companies were fled from him, or slaughtered abouthim, disdaining to retire or call for quarter, he received a mortalwound, and fell, offering his sword to his conquerors. TheEnglish wept with pity and admiration. The plan of the siege on next page is reproduced from theGentlemans Magazine for October 1762. The Spanishfleet is seen lying in the harbour, the mouth of which wasprotected by a chain boom. The steamer passes under the walls of the Morro by anarrow channel scarcely more than 1000 feet in width.On the right is another fort known as La Punta, and beyondit the city of Havana, round the seaward side of which isthe magnificent driveway on a sea-wall called the