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Description
Col. Forney receives Admiral Pascual Cervera y Topete, who commanded a Spanish squadron in Santiago Bay, Cuba in May 1898. He lost all his ships and was taken prison and transported to the Kittery Navy Yard with many other Spanish prisoners. He was released in September 1898 and returned to Spain.
About This Item
- Title: Col. Forney and Admiral Cervera, Kittery Navy Yard, 1898
- Creation Date: 1898
- Subject Date: 1898
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Locations:
- Kittery, York County, ME
- Portsmouth, Rockingham County, NH
- Media: Photographic print
- Dimensions: 9 cm x 10 cm
- Local Code: Coll. 562
- Collection: Kittery Naval Yard photographs
- Object Type: Image
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Standardized Subject Headings
- Admirals--Spain
- Cervera y Topete, Pascual--Photographs
- Prisoners of war--United States--Portsmouth Naval Shipyard (U.S.)
- Spanish-American War, 1898--Prisoners and prisons--Photographs
- United States--History--War with Spain, 1898
- Portsmouth Naval Shipyard (U.S.)--Photographs
- Naval yards & naval stations--United States--Maine--Kittery
- Naval yards & naval stations--United States--New Hampshire--Portsmouth
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