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Coded Order to Engage the Spanish Fleet

Telegram, in code, from Theodore Roosevelt to Commodore Dewey, 02/26/1898  (detail)
This telegram, in code from Assistant Secretary of the the Navy Theodore Roosevelt to Commodore George Dewey, Commander of the U.S. Asiatic Squadron, was sent without the knowledge of Secretary of the Navy Long. The telegram authorized Dewey to engage the Spanish fleet. On May 1, 1898, Dewey would destroy the Spanish fleet at the Battle of Manila Bay.
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